Question

User registration is temporary turned off due to bot activity signing up for spam accounts.

I have been temporarily turning on the user registration, when I'm available to moderate and delete the spam accounts.

Every time I turn the user registration back on, there's a huge influx of bots signing up for spam accounts, which I have to delete and I currently don't have enough time for that right now.

So the user registration will sometimes be on and sometimes be off when I can delete the spam accounts, which I do pretty quickly as I monitor the the user account signups when I turn it back on.

Sorry for the inconvenience, as I'm currently working on trying to stop the bot activity so I can leave the user registration on.

I've been really busy lately since the cpanel hack where we lost the data on this website and had to restart over, which sucks.

I also lost sleep as a result and am trying to catch up on sleep.

Hopefully things will be back to normal soon, thanks for understanding and we'll rebuild this website from the ground up.

We're not gonna let the hackers win.

I've but more backup plans in place and the server has been updated and the control panel has also been updated for the server as well, so we're currently safe from the hacking.

Also if you previously had an account on this website, you'll have to register again to be able to login as we lost all data due to the Cpanel hackers, which happened to a lot of other websites as well.

Sorry for the inconvenience and it sucks we lost all that data of nearly 10 years.

Answer 1

That's completely understandable.

I run a forum and get an influx of bots signing up and have to ban them and it's a lot of work.
I have a few people helping me, which helps some.

I to have to turn the registration off for awhile, especially if I get a lot of bots signing up and can't be available to moderate it.

When I do turn registration on to my forum, I'll watch the signups and if there's a bunch of bots, I'll band them and delete their accounts right away.