vB 3.05 Avatar Option for Users Disabled!

[Laurie]

How many registrations a day? Anywhere from three to 10. Sometimes more.

I get very few "I didnt get my confirmation email, can you send it please"
Maybe two or three every...

[Laurie]

Unless you manually delete/prune inactive registered users through the Control Panel, probably forever. At least in my version (3.0.5) I have the option of establishing a timetable from which to selectively...

[Laurie]

Check out the "More forum spammers in the last few days?" thread. This same problem is discussed there too....

[Laurie]

I do not have CAPTCHA with my version. But I did change some of the default settings to the forum "look" coincide with the rest of the site after the upgrade last year.

I do not...

[Laurie]

Yes, excatly where they can "stew" before being deleted. Just spent the last couple of hours deleting all holders of gawab.com and cashette.com email churning there in mine.

Going...

[Laurie]

I run 3.05 and been hit by spambots the last few days too. Never happened before and was caught unawares of this tactic. But quickly learned to spot most of them.

I admin a PC gaming website....

[Laurie]

Thanks everyone.

I did find the solution here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79973

Like I said, still very new at this. Thought for sure all the...

[Laurie]

My problem is similar to this thread posted :

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...vatar+disabled



But this is with...

[Laurie]

Threads: 8,576, Posts: 98,725, Members: 1,588

The website has been in existence for nearly five years now and still has a lively and loyal gaming community. Mainly because of the MP aspect...

[Laurie]

Nearly three years ago, we had to start manually validating all new registerees after a couple of spoofing incidents and board spamming by some idiots. A bunch of kiddies thinking it was "cool"...