Suggestion: Disable new user registration, Invites only

[Neotox]

hello

I have a suggestion, don't know if more users will like it or not but I want to share my thoughts

after we have seen there are a lot of new users coming and involved in scams(not all but most), and people are farming account, spamming everywhere

what if this forum disable new user registrations and registrations only possible via invites only and you can also put the limits how much invites a user can send based on their rank, and stop negative trust users to send invites,only Full member and above users can send invites


please share your thoughts, i think it will control a lot of spam on this forum
Admin please consider this if you think its a good idea to control the spam



Regards
Neotox...

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[emrebey]

I don't agree.

new real users (new real bitcoiners) should be able to fire up an account here. invite only is killing this.

[Quickseller]

I don't think this is going to happen. One point of the forum is to get more people involved into Bitcoin. If registration is closed then less people will join the community which means less people will use Bitcoin.

[sherbyspark]

I don't think its a good idea to stop new users from registering. For a new person introduced to bitcoin, it will be harder to join. Rather people will start selling accounts, which would kind of mean the same thing.

A better solution to stop the spam would be not allow new registrations from an existing IP. But even that has some limitations, as there can always be multiple people using the same IP. Disabling registrations through TOR, and checking cookies could be another solution.

[arallmuus]

hello

I have a suggestion, don't know if more users will like it or not but I want to share my thoughts

after we have seen there are a lot of new users coming and involved in scams(not all but most), and people are farming account, spamming everywhere

what if this forum disable new user registrations and registrations only possible via invites only and you can also put the limits how much invites a user can send based on their rank, and stop negative trust users to send invites,only Full member and above users can send invites


please share your thoughts, i think it will control a lot of spam on this forum
Admin please consider this if you think its a good idea to control the spam


Regards
Neotox...

Farming account is not againts the rule, but if you post crappy posts or spam with your alt, it will be againts the rule. One thing is it will control the number of spam , which is might be but what if someone wish to learn about bitcoin in this forum and doesnt have any friends which could give him an invite link?

And also providing an invite link for a Full member or above could be abused, because some people might sell their invites link for an extra penny, some people just tend to milk the every penny with their account

[Neotox]

I have seen accounts that banned for farming even they had quality posts without spams

[Quickseller]

I have seen accounts that banned for farming even they had quality posts without spams

this is unlikely. The owner was likely shit posting from at least one account that got banned

[erikalui]

I don't think it's a good idea as this would prevent new users who don't know any member from this forum from joining this forum. Instead of this, account farming shouldn't be allowed as I don't get what's the use of having more than one account unless your one account is banned for few days and one needs to appeal or members are able to sell their alt accounts.

[ndnh]

That would mean banning new users who didn't know it before from entering.

I got into it by sheer accident. I didn't even know such a cool community on Bitcoin existed.
If an invite was mandatory, I still wouldn't be here.

[redsn0w]

I also don't support your idea, this is a forum and it should be opened for the registration without the use of an invite.

[dothebeats]

hello

I have a suggestion, don't know if more users will like it or not but I want to share my thoughts

after we have seen there are a lot of new users coming and involved in scams(not all but most), and people are farming account, spamming everywhere

what if this forum disable new user registrations and registrations only possible via invites only and you can also put the limits how much invites a user can send based on their rank, and stop negative trust users to send invites,only Full member and above users can send invites


please share your thoughts, i think it will control a lot of spam on this forum
Admin please consider this if you think its a good idea to control the spam



Regards
Neotox...

Seems like the forum being an invite-only is far-fetched and would contradict the purpose of introducing bitcoin to new users. If this would be the case, I doubt that people would even bother getting their hands on bitcoin. They can use different search engines in finding the right information that they need, but isn't it a bit reliable if you could just directly ask to the members of the community and to those who had been using bitcoins for long? This forum can be the first place they will seek for help if ever they needed one, given that there are many bitcoiners here that could help them on whatever there is that they're having a hard time with.

[RocketSingh]

Probably your intention is good, but this is not going to happen. Because, the moment this forum become restricted, another forum will pop up to take its place.

[hilariousandco]

Didn't Goat create an invite only forum? It really isn't a good idea and will just turn it into one big exclusive boys club and people will just sell their invites to the highest bidder anyway.

[unsoindovo]

I have seen accounts that banned for farming even they had quality posts without spams

i agree...

it append to me too..
no spam
no FUD
no SCAM..
but i have user banned...

Unfortunately, here we are not in a democracy.

even if bitcoin forum still a great resurce for real bitcoiners...

[shogdite]

Think it would send out the wrong message, we want to encourage new members to the forum not make it into some exclusive geek fest.

Determined people would still be able to abuse the invite-only system so I can't see how it would deter scammer/spammers etc

[hilariousandco]

I have seen accounts that banned for farming even they had quality posts without spams

i agree...

it append to me too..
no spam
no FUD
no SCAM..
but i have user banned...

Unfortunately, here we are not in a democracy.

even if bitcoin forum still a great resurce for real bitcoiners...

Looking at your previous posts it's not surprising you were banned for what I'm going to assume was spam. And this forum might not be a democracy but I'm sure most users would be against this proposition.

[thebitcoinquiz.com]

Well this will just stop new people from letting in join the bitcoin world.
Also it wouldn't stop people who scam and who farm account. Account farmers will invite themselves to make new accounts and scammers will invite new accounts to scam. So don't know how can this be beneficial.

[botany]

I disagree with this idea. There are people who stumble upon this website by accident and register.
If this was an invite-only website, I can say that I wouldn't have got an invite and I wouldn't be here. 

[guitarplinker]

Well this will just stop new people from letting in join the bitcoin world.
Also it wouldn't stop people who scam and who farm account. Account farmers will invite themselves to make new accounts and scammers will invite new accounts to scam. So don't know how can this be beneficial.

Exactly this.

Bitcointalk seems to be based around freedom - users have the freedom to do pretty much anything they want, they can post anything they want, feedback isn't removed, etc. By having an invite only registration it would take a huge portion of that freedom away.

[sukamasoto]

Don't agree with this one. You're close a real newbie to enter bitcoin world best forum.
For scammer etc it's just better to ban it's IP forever