New members now have limited access until they reach Full Member status. There is no ability to include links or to edit their own posts until they have made 10 posts and been a member more than 30 days. There is no access to downloads or posting classifieds until after 10 posts and 30 days. They can post in response to an ad however. There is a limit of one Personal Message conversation per day so they can contact people with ads in the Classifieds in private if desired.
Any account that has not posted at all in the 30 day period will be deleted. Anyone with more than one but less than 10 posts will simply remain in the regular Member account status indefinitely. The accounts that make at least ten valid posts and have been a member at least 30 days will automatically be promoted to the new Full Member status. This will give access to the Classifieds and Downloads and remove the PM limit, allow links and post editing, etc. It will also allow full access to custom profiles, avatar photos, signatures, and more.
This does not affect any existing accounts!!Any current members with less than 10 posts etc need not worry as all accounts as of this morning were promoted to Full Member status. Anyone with no posts however should at least post once or lose your account after 30 days have passed.
This was done to stop the excessive spammer activity after consulting the current membership over the last month. It should pretty much put a complete halt to that sort of thing, while also encouraging new members to be more active. Lurkers are welcome, but will need to post at least once.
Thank you everyone for the valuable feedback on this subject.
I will monitor the new setup but if anyone experiences anything odd due to the new setup, please let me know. I changed quite a few forum settings and hopefully got it all right.
Hello Steve,
Thank you for your actions to try taking care of the spam.
I found very helpful this blog but i can't download one file because I only joined the blog today.
I contact you to for asking if there is some way to download the file without being already a full member account.
New Member Limited Account And A Full Access / Full Member Account Implemented
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Hello Steve,
Thank you for your actions to try taking care of the spam.
I found very helpful this blog but i can't download one file because I only joined the blog today.
I contact you to for asking if there is some way to download the file without being already a full member account.
Thank you
Feld34