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ok, approve function now only work together pre-reg,
but join to free-reg is easy

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matter of taste
- admin do view approval list   
- or it's view for admi/gmod in forum statistic section
- or ... or a email

You think 
I think I to work on the right lines.

The registration have 3 side.
User side - registration request, verification code typing , activation validation.
Tech side - simple mail checking, (or improved email checking), pre-reg activate time-out
Admin side - monitoring/ban/delete, or only admin can register like now

You say: user starting a registration, wait for approved by admin, and finish the reg process if he get it.

My idea not to horn in user or tech side.
If anybody want to join, then can register, go through the full (simple or multistep) registration procedure. Like now.
He to obtain a user status instantly, can login and enjoy the forum. It's userfrendly
But he know too it's limited status and need wait for full approved.

At the time admin/gmod can approve her account. Or Disapprove. But alone at this moment because haven't unnecessary todo with fals reg - this adminfrendly

And this method possible easy switch to the free registration too.
But this my personal equation.


Mail to admin question. A big forum have more admin/gmod. Who get this mail?
I think best, if waiting users or number of this users showed to all admin/gmod in forum.

New version in first post

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to all admin and gmod?

@Zoo,

I don't see the way I propose it to be the user being bothered with tech stuff ?
He/she just gets a screen/email telling to wait for the admins to approve their application, nothing tech about that.
It's the way any normal life application also works, you ask to become a member, and if your credentials check out you get entrance.
You now turn the world upside down by making them a member that can do nothing more then a guest, only adding them to the memberdatabase.

So you have a spammer sign up and give him a user status but add a flag into the profile "unapproved" which prevents him to post or IM ?
Makes the admin part a lot heavier, as you need to delete all spammers after they signed up.

Where do you set the status ? In the vars file ?

Zoo wrote on Apr 17^th, 2007 at 1:49pm:

There is a slight difference in the way I envision this feature and my idea leans heavily on existing pre-reg and activation code.

The only difference is the diversion from the activation mail to the admin (which has two links and a pre reg profile summary) giving the admin the option to activate or disapprove (delete) a preregged user without even being on the board.

This means for other users and guests there will not be a change in the member count and list until someone actually is approved.

In your model the member (without rights) is already added to the member system (meaning visible as latest member on the board, in the memberlist etc and the only way the admin now has is to remove this member from the admin center.

I think this is just even more work then just clicking email links.
And of course registration with admin approval always means more work, for both our systems, because even in your system all new regged members have to be approved or dismissed by an admin or gmod, meaning also not less work then the way I want to do it.

I can't wait till this mod is completed, it's something I've wanted for quite some time.

I do like spikecity's idea about not even allowing them become a member before they are approved. That way nobody sees the new members till they've been approved. But regardless as long as I can approve people who apply would be a great step forward.

@ExhaultedRuler: I think yes.

@everybody: ok, I'll try to add a prereg-approved-activation model.

to me: I was think, be quick over write a simple, usable approval mod. I'm naiv.

@Spikecity

Imp_In_Training wrote on Apr 18^th, 2007 at 7:18am: