Registration blocked as spam, admins never respond to messages

[briandel]

I attempted multiples times to register on this forum. Every time I would be denied registration and a message that said spammers are not allowed to register. The message also said to contact the admins with the 'Contact Us' link on the bottom. I did this many times and never received a reply back.

Do admins actively ignore these messages? If an admin will never respond, just takeout the contact us link all together and it will save the hassle from both sides. Only downside is that some members will potentially never be able to register. I finally figured out my login information from years prior and that's the only reason I am able to post right now.

 

[Spacehead]

The message also said to contact the admins with the 'Contact Us' link on the bottom. I did this many times and never received a reply back.

This just came up in another thread where some one was having problems logging in or registering & he kept sending emails to the mod account & no one ever responded.
Whichever mod responded to the post said they don't look at those emails.
I'm curious now too, how do you get a response if you're having problems logging in???

 

[MattRobertson]

I created a new user when I couldn't authenticate my original signup.

I can sympathize. I'm an admin on another VB-based board and spammers sign up by the zillions. If we responded to emails associated with signup - or even retried confirmation emails that bounced with temp failure from a gateway that greylists (that was my problem... didn't get the exception in fast enough) it would be a full time job.

 

[Harvey]

Brian and Matt,

YGPM about your registration problems. Reply, and I will help you.

Harvey
Senior AT Mod/Admin

 

[briandel]

I'm curious now too, how do you get a response if you're having problems logging in???

The error message I got says this:

Registration denied, this forum runs an active policy of not allowing spammers. Please contact us via the "Contact Us" page link if you believe this is in error

The most irritating thing is that the message specifically says to contact the admins through the 'Contact Us' link which is a complete waste of time because no one bothers to even read them. Aside from that, there is no other way to contact the admins.

 

[Dude111]

Its sad that spammers have to make things so hard for site staff... I know they dont like taking these measures but ITS BETTER THAN HAVING THE SITE MOCKED UP.. (But it does cause alot of problems for members WHO ARENT A PROBLEM (Which unfortunetly you cant avoid))