Re: Are there enough participants here?
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:21 pm
richie349 wrote:
The manually vetting process you use (an email from a moderator asking why you're signing up) is a very bad idea. it send a message to the prospective new member that the site is very quiet. Can you imagine a thriving, busy site being able to send individually written emails to each new subscriber?
Was a bit surprised to get the email and if i'm honest it put my nose out a little. I didn't reply to it straight away and if it wasn't for the fact I really wanted to post on here, I probably wouldn't have bothered.
There is already a spambot prevention thing in the sign up, not sure why new members are then asked to prove their worthiness before contributing.