Hello I am a new member as of today! I would like to open up the signup process for discussion. My personal experience to the sign up process for the Kubuntu forum was really annoy. I found there to be too many questions and one in particular I kept getting wrong, I finally gave up in disgust. So time passed and something didn't sit right with me so I tired again just so I could share my sign-up process with the site admin if nothing else!
FYI: I have been a member of the Ubuntu forum as a Kubuntu user for over a year because of this one reason! I gave up then and I almost gave up again a week ago.
Other than the image captcha having more questions doesn't make it harder for the bots, the questions are static, there is no guessing for the bot. However the human will be annoyed like I was and I am willing to say many will not bother or abandon there process.
I was asked to post on here to help get the community involved in the process of seeking an alternative process to keep spammers and bots off our community site. First the ubuntu forum has a very simple streamline process and I would argue that because of the multitude of questions one needs to answers you're going to have less people sign up.
Let me point out, that on the site, the site admin said (not picking on anyone):
>I have noticed that we have a large number of guests online
>all the time. Why not sign up for a free account ...
I claimed to the site admin the reason is because of the sign-up process, as a result this community is not allowed to grow and get bigger, over at the ubuntu camp they are much bigger!
One of the things I would like to see implemented here is to empower the community to get involved to keep spammers and bots at bay! I propose and would like community feedback that we install a policy for new members post to be validated by existing community members. This will only empower the community and allow others to get involved at keeping this forum clean for others.
Overtime if we install a simple signup process our community will be allowed to grow (faster), and by the law of large numbers, the community will find it easier to find volunteers to help with community duties and tasks.
This is your community, where you come for help, so please give this great thought! When replying lets stick with solutions.
My philosophy is that you should give more than you take! At first there will be growing pains, but eventually things will work out for the better if the community supports it and there is buy in.
I feel strongly that we need a simple signup process, that we need to empower the community and get them involved as being a part of the solution. What we need to move away from is building walls and making things harder at the cost of the user experience.
The site admin thinks this will enrage the community to make new user's have their post validated not as spam! I'd like to think otherwise, what are you thoughts?
Do you have other solutions to make it harder for spammers and bots but dead simple for the good guys?
Our goals needs to be
1) make is dead easy for the good guys to sign up & get help
2) grow the community
3) get the community involved
4) empower the community
Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
FYI: I have been a member of the Ubuntu forum as a Kubuntu user for over a year because of this one reason! I gave up then and I almost gave up again a week ago.
Other than the image captcha having more questions doesn't make it harder for the bots, the questions are static, there is no guessing for the bot. However the human will be annoyed like I was and I am willing to say many will not bother or abandon there process.
I was asked to post on here to help get the community involved in the process of seeking an alternative process to keep spammers and bots off our community site. First the ubuntu forum has a very simple streamline process and I would argue that because of the multitude of questions one needs to answers you're going to have less people sign up.
Let me point out, that on the site, the site admin said (not picking on anyone):
>I have noticed that we have a large number of guests online
>all the time. Why not sign up for a free account ...
I claimed to the site admin the reason is because of the sign-up process, as a result this community is not allowed to grow and get bigger, over at the ubuntu camp they are much bigger!
One of the things I would like to see implemented here is to empower the community to get involved to keep spammers and bots at bay! I propose and would like community feedback that we install a policy for new members post to be validated by existing community members. This will only empower the community and allow others to get involved at keeping this forum clean for others.
Overtime if we install a simple signup process our community will be allowed to grow (faster), and by the law of large numbers, the community will find it easier to find volunteers to help with community duties and tasks.
This is your community, where you come for help, so please give this great thought! When replying lets stick with solutions.
My philosophy is that you should give more than you take! At first there will be growing pains, but eventually things will work out for the better if the community supports it and there is buy in.
I feel strongly that we need a simple signup process, that we need to empower the community and get them involved as being a part of the solution. What we need to move away from is building walls and making things harder at the cost of the user experience.
The site admin thinks this will enrage the community to make new user's have their post validated not as spam! I'd like to think otherwise, what are you thoughts?
Do you have other solutions to make it harder for spammers and bots but dead simple for the good guys?
Our goals needs to be
1) make is dead easy for the good guys to sign up & get help
2) grow the community
3) get the community involved
4) empower the community
Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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