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[josh]

I'm sorry to do this, but the board has been inundated with spam. I have to remove 3-4 spam postings per day lately, and each removal also involves going to the admin panel, finding the user's record, banning them from the forum, and some other cleanup stuff.

So reluctantly, I'm going to change the registration process to thwart these spambots that go looking for small forums like this to post their "offers".

From now on, newly registered users will not automatically have the ability to post messages. They'll get an email from me asking for a quick reply saying who they are and why they're interested in Kaleidescape or this forum. If they respond in an intelligible way, I'll approve them becoming a full member with posting priviliges.

If you want to speed up the process and save me some trouble, you can proactively send me a note with the answers to those questions. Do this after you get the automatic email that asks you to confirm your email address.

So to summarize, this is how it works:

• Fill out the registration info, including a real email address
• the system will AUTOMATICALLY send you an email to confirm your email, asking you to click a link to confirm. Click that link to confirm your email address.
• The system alerts me of your request to register and that your email address was validated.
• If you've already emailed me or PM'd me the info about your interest in Kaleidescape and how you found us, I'll get you registered quickly. If not, I'll drop you a note asking you to tell me of your interest, etc. Reply to that and I'll get you set up.
• You should get a note when you're completely registered with all privileges.

Please do note that it can take me a day or so... I don't do this fulltime and do work (too hard) and travel some, so I get to it when I can.

These extra step will stop the spambots from registering and posting here.

It will make it somewhat more of a hassle for new users, and for that I'm sorry. But I just can't take all the spam we're getting lately.

Real humans interested in discussing Kaleidescape should still be able to participate here very quickly. Note that you do NOT need to be a Kaleidescape owners, user, dealer, or installer. You just need to verify you have a genuine interest in participating here. All opinions, questions and viewpoints are welcome.


Thanks for understanding,

--josh

[josh]

Welcome to the Kaleidescape Owners' Form (KOForum).

This is an experiment. I don't know if there are enough Kaleidescape users who are interested in pariticipating or sharing... but a few other owners have said they'd try it out with me here.

We'll see how it goes, and if it doesn't provide value then we'll do something else. It was a neat process learning how to set up a board like this, so i don't regret the few hours put in so far, regardless of how it turns out.

But I hope there are enough other crazies like me, constantly fiddling with this great system, discovering new things to do with it, and looking to learn from others.

Drop me a note if you have any suggestions to help better organize or facilitate the discussions on the board.

--Josh (KOForum Administrator)