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Events, discussions, and forum changes

Just wanted to give everyone a heads-up with what’s happening in the community.

Gym jam this Saturday (2/3/07):
http://slcpk.org/forums/showthread.php?t=264

Rayxna from Chicago’s Aero Crew coming to SLC:
http://slcpk.org/forums/showthread.php?t=265

When parkour would come in handy:
http://slcpk.org/forums/showthread.php?t=262

And the forum changes.  It seems that the upgrade to the forum software (our old software was years out of date) invited a bunch of spam bots to crawl in and create spam accounts.  It got to the point where I was banning spam accounts and locking threads every day.  To help the situation, I configured new user registration to be approved by me personally before the account was allowed to do anything on the forums.  Even that was a little tricky, because I had no real way of identifying the spam accounts when they came into my inbox for moderation.  I pretty much just had to guess.

I added a new field called “Bot Check” that must be filled out in order for a new account to become active.  Each new user has to enter a specific word in that field in order to be approved.  Spam bots don’t know what that word is, and will usually just fill the field with gibberish.  This helps me recognize spam accounts more easily, which means I can recognize the real accounts more easily.

So if you’re a regular on the forums and you haven’t yet done so, you’ll need to go into your user profile and fill in the required field.

That’s it for the updates!  See you on the forums!