Over the past few weeks we have been working to implement a process for the moderation of spam posts on the forum. We realise that these posts are disruptive to the user experience on the forum and want to tackle this issue.
This week, we will be working to migrate all currently registered users to a “Members” usergroup which will not require post moderation and will not change any of the rights you currently have on the forum. This will allow us to use the “Registered Users” usergroup as a place where posts can be moderated. Once a new user registers, they will be placed in the “Registered Users” usergroup and will have to have their posts approved by a moderator before they are posted to the forum. Once a user has had 3 posts approved, they will be promoted to the “Members” usergroup.
We hope that this will tackle the majority of the spam activity as we appreciate that of recent this has become particularly disruptive. The changes we are making should not affect the functionality of the forum, however, we do apologise for any outages or inconvenience caused and welcome your feedback via the ‘Forum Suggestions’ area under ‘Other Discussion’.
Many Thanks,
RAC