I'm well aware that I pretty much register anyone who does a fair job at registering for a Sumea profile, but seeing as we're well over 200 members now, I might have to be a bit more selective on new people.
For starters, I'm not accepting anymore registrants from a free web email provider (Hotmail, Yahoo etc). Privacy shouldn't be an issue because no one sees your email address anyway, and there's zero chance of me selling email addresses to some big spam list.
Must enter your real full name for the real name box. No one will see your real full name except me if you're kinda shy.
Being a bit more belligerent on what registrants write for their profiles. I've stated that you should be writing something decent about yourself in your profile when you register (something more than one sentence), but I've let that pass more than a few times.
I don't wanna sound like a webmaster nazi, but the site really needs these measures to prevent Joe Bob from registering because he thought it was cool for a minute.
I'll also put some cookie code on the registration page so that people can't keep on submitting the same details a million times over as easily. That's something I should have done since the beginning, although I didn't think I'd have to do it in the first place.
Just a thought.
If Sumea is getting a bit more traffic now, maybe it would benefit from a couple of moderators instead of just you Souri? That way you can still keep tabs on posts and inforce some type of common understanding of whats allowed and you don't have to do it all.
I know moderation means half ...er most of my posts would be culled though. [:P]
As for hazing...bring on the Stone of Shame.
The other thing I was wondering about.... What about getting rid of some of the inactive accounts. I am sure an account that hasnt been used in 3 months or 6 months could be removed?
I realise this doesnt have anything much to do with new accounts - just old ones ;)
As for new ones I think its fair. The part of free emails I totally agree with. Free emails can just be ignored or created at a whim.
I think Malus has a good idea about adding a couple of mods. It's something I had been wondering about myself.
If you do need help let me know, Souri. I promise I won't stalk you anymore.
Agreed, i personally don't recall anything that really needed moderating in the time i've been visiting here, othere than as souri mentioned, the occasional misplaced post. (Although Sh-nuff has come close to getting muted a few times :) )
On the subject of free email accounts, they can be useful if you change ISP's often, so you don't have to continually keep changing your details on every single website you've got an account on! However, it makes sense to not allow automatic signups for free emails, i think it should be possible perhaps if they get in contact with you first etc.
CYer, Blitz
Maybe you could cull accounts that haven't logged on for a while if they have a post count of lower than 50 or 100. Or somehting like that, I know some times I dont actually log on for a while (maybe not like 3 months) but I'd be a bit disappointed if I came back and my account was gone. I mean if someone has posted like 5 times and hasn't logged on in 3-4 months, you cpould be pretty sure they're not to involved.
I also think that the higher standards at the start would be good too. (let me just check which of my emails I used!! [:O])
Sounds fair enough to me, does that mean all that have registered need to update there profile details or are we safe from your culling. [:P]
Btw what if my name is Joe Bob lol.