New users must now be activated by admin

Due to the large amount of spambots succeeding in registering and posting recently, I have changed registration to require new users to be activated by the admin.

Hopefully it will be less work to screen new users than to delete spambots, and the forums won’t fill up with spam.

The reason we’re still seeing spam is that it’s from accounts that registered before I changed user activation to require admin approval, but then waited before posting spam.

I can’t see a nice way to hunt and destroy such accounts in advance, so I’ll just have to delete them as they spam. So expect some more spam, but less over time as the lurking spambots are weeded out.

I greatly appreciated the spambot used The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe to mask its spammy messages!