Moderators - Enchancement Request for New Members
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Racer
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From: Tx
Moderators - Enchancement Request for New Members
Just an idea - but has there been any consideration to limit "new user accounts" ability to generate For Sale threads without reaching a certain amount of posts/engagement within the forum. Too many scammers generating fake accounts, going straight to the For Sale section and posting bogus ads. Members who may not be as savy as others can easily fall for the scam, responding directly with their personal email addresses or worse, directly contacting via phone numbers. I know there's warnings posted about this but enforcing activity within the forum may be benficial to us all.
These data points can not only give scammers additional hacking/scamming capability outside of the forum, but it can also increase vulernability of Identity Theft. A lot of members trust a little too much, adding their real name to their profile information, or have their personal email accounts setup with firstname.lastname@email.com which now provides too much information = vulnerabilities.
I think we could benefit from Members requiring X amount of posts or time before they can create a For Sale thread.
These data points can not only give scammers additional hacking/scamming capability outside of the forum, but it can also increase vulernability of Identity Theft. A lot of members trust a little too much, adding their real name to their profile information, or have their personal email accounts setup with firstname.lastname@email.com which now provides too much information = vulnerabilities.
I think we could benefit from Members requiring X amount of posts or time before they can create a For Sale thread.
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Racer
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From: Tx
It's not clear what you're intending to infer here. How is enhancing a requirement of either a certain period of time or certain amount of engagement before the ability to create a For Sale thread, bending rules?
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Racer
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From: Tx
I know it's stickied about beware of scammers with instructions and warnings, but we can suffocate their influence by enhancing permissions with a restriction for newly generated accounts. With additional detterents in place a scammer typically wouldn't want to make a elongated presence. Hoping it will get scammers to move on from CorvetteForum and put it low on their list of potential opportunity to succesfully scam.
At the end of the day - I'm just trying to look out for all of us honest folk.
Last edited by ChodaBoy; Today at 12:26 PM.
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