Several times per week, we check for new registrations to validate them.

Two objectives

• Help integrate new community members
• Avoid spammer and scammers
• Improve registration and spam prevention process and features -> Spam Protection & Registration

Flow

1. User self-registers at tiki-register.php
2. Community Team approves registration
   • All user that are "not validated"
3. User receives confirmation email
4. User validates email (Tiki should be changed so they validate email first as this reduces work for the site admin and it confirms to the user that (s)he is indeed in the system
5. User participates to the community

If user is a spammer, delete his account, and user tracker entry.

How to detect spammers

• Google their email and/or username
• Check if their SourceForge.net username checks out. Ex.: http://sourceforge.net/users/arion92fr/ Make sure to put all in lowercase.
• Read their description
• Send them a private email
• Check out their domain name
  • If it's a free email hosting, it's a higher chance of spam
    • hotmail
    • gmail
  • 163.com
  • 126.com
  • yeah.net
  • tom.com
  • sohu.com

Dogfood

• It would be nice to have IP address of registratant in the confirmation email
• It would be nice to just be able to reply the registration request to email the person and ask for more info

• How to confirm registrations on tiki.org