#155 Admin Approval of New Users / anti-spam measures

[Montie Roland]

Create a way for admins to select if they have to approve all new users.

Then have the following methods for new user approval:

• by email to selected admin on a per instance basis
• through an admin panel on a per instance basis
• through an admin panel on a batch basis
• through an admin panel by setting up rules for approval (for example: user admin must have a specific domain - helpful for big companies)

This would help reduce the amount of spam for some users.

[Montie Roland]

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My scuttle site is constantly (daily) being hit by spammers. I finally had to rename the registration module to stop the spam.

[Jean-Luc Trussart]

I'm interessed in this feature too!

[Jean-Luc Trussart]

at least, we could have a way to moderate new bookmarks.

[Christian Weiske]

I think of several measures against spam:

• New users are restricted until they get "approved" by an administrator. They may create new bookmarks, but that bookmarks get flagged as "restricted" any only they can see it.
• New bookmarks by restricted users get spam-checked against i.e. akismet and refused when they are thought as spam.
• A tool to delete restricted bookmarks and restricted users.

[Christian Weiske]

Ticket moved from /p/semanticscuttle/feature-requests/91/