TFBW wrote:
So, if I understand that correctly, your forum only allows posts by registered users, and you are requiring active Javascript only at the point of registration. That seems reasonable, if the "registered users only" aspect isn't an issue. Personally I hate having to sign up when I encounter a forum as a result of a search and want to post a comment on it -- that's why I allow guest posting here.
Depends on the purpose of the forum, if it's mostly used as a comment/feedback system I'd agree about hating to sign up. The forum I admin is more a community discussion/newsgroup replacement type system where most users visit over and over again. For that type of forum registration is not such a big deal (helps keep the coversations straight) and it lets us use capchas (phpbbs could be better) and email verfication. Email verification all by itself (before I started banning the spammer domains) was stopping about half the spammers. So far adding this artifical Javascript requirement seems to be stopping the rest of the spammers.