Trolls

[Hoplomancer]

How do pharmaceutical trolls keep getting in here? Don't they have to be specifically approved? Are they actually emailing Ulf? Are trolls getting that smart these days?

[Wizard]

No, apparently legitimate type users were finding the sign-up procedures too difficult, so I made it self-verification, which trolls are smart enough to get around. I'm still researching better ways to prevent trolls, but as this is not my job and I only work with free software, it's slow going.

To the mods, remember I'm not the only one that can delete troll posts.

[Hoplomancer]

Do you think maybe we should use something other than Simple Machines? Perhaps there is a better forum client?

[Wizard]

Like I said, looking into it. But I discovered SMF back when I was unemployed and could spend days at a time learning about webmastering. It's what I know. If anyone has suggestions, I would love to hear them.

[Bassil]

Can you grant different levels of something. Like once person A makes an account can't you make him/her/it post on board X? Until they promoted in a since? That way it's at least contained to one board and not ALL of them.

[Wizard]

Tried that didn't work. Also tried requiring people to email me to get their accounts activated, but apparently that was too complicated for real humans to understand.