What do you think of Registration is needed on UGA?

[Artificial Intelligence]

Greetings fellow gamers!

Just making a survey on "If UGA need a making an account to post, vote and comment". The reason I ask is that the web is flooding with spam bots and people which purpose in life is to spam (what I wouldn't give to get my hands on such persons), which makes it a tedious job to maintain a non-registration free for all posts site.
If we had such system would you make a registration?

The benifit will be;
1) Comment on the news
2) Give your votes on our guides.
3) Much less annoying spams
4) The admins can use the extra energy on something useful.

Downside;
1) It takes less then 2 min to make an account.


What do you think? Just have in mind it's just a survey to see what our user think, we know people think it's annoying to create an account, but it helps to keep things clean.

[teaker1s]

I think this is a bigger forum issue-spam people still register and spam, I've been thinking-which is more work
1) delete and ban the spam as it arises
2) possibly a post limit of say 5 posts until a mod has looked to make sure it's not spam etc.

I feel the second is good as a general as it allows some questions and freedom, but limits the mass of duplicate threads like I reported recently.

[conjur3r]

I agree with the sign up accounts. I was actually surprised that it was totally open after the site's second release. A little hindrence on users is totally acceptable to make way for easier site management.

[2dere]

teakers1s idea isnt too bad if you find mods who are keen for all the checking regardless, making peeps sign will atleast allow you to know whos spaming right?

[Artificial Intelligence]

We can see the spammers PM's but they diffrent IPs everytime. With registration system it will make it more difficult for bots to spam.

[hikaricore]

We can see the spammers PM's but they diffrent IPs everytime. With registration system it will make it more difficult for bots to spam.

And just as I'm reading this I see someone posted very very bad xrated spam in our chatbox.

Will this also cover chatbox usage?

I've voted yes.

[Artificial Intelligence]

And just as I'm reading this I see someone posted very very bad xrated spam in our chatbox.

Will this also cover chatbox usage?

I've voted yes.

I guess so that the permission can be set to it.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Registration is now official a reality.
Sorry to those who don't like to registry, but it was a simple of matter I was getting grey hair and a bad mood dealing with <biiiiip> scumbags.


I'm very sorry it have to be that way, but that's reality of the internet today.... :-/

[handy]

It really isn't a great cost of a user's time to sign up.