House Strongbow

[Ingilborg]

Greetings all:

Due to ongoing problems with spammer activities, there has been a change in how the general public can post to this board.

If you want to write something here, you have to open an account and wait for approval. This is not what we wanted to do and one would think that php would do something about this, but we moderators simply can't keep up with it. Every patch we put in stopped the spam for about 24 hours and then it was back to cleaning 30 spam messages a day off of this forum. Needless to say, something had to give.

So when you open your account, please answer all the questions, and we would advise putting something SCA related in your profile, so we know what you're about ( an SCA person and not somebody from Uzbekistan planning to hawk enhancement aids on this forum). And please be patient; your request to get approval has to be approved now by a human being as opposed to an automated system, and can take a day or so.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Ingilborg Sigmundardottir
"Beware ulven, hun bjeffer ikke."
"Beware the wolf, she doesn't need to bark."
Semidomesticus.

[Ingilborg]

Oh and addendum:

If you have applied for an account on this forum and haven't heard anything within 2-3 days, please send an email to <IngaWolf@argentlupus.com> and put something notable in the subject line, like "application for Strongbow BB" or similar. We get requests for memberships to the tune of 15-20 per day, all automated and pretty much all from spammers. A human being has to go through all that periodically and clear it out to prevent the board from being shut down, and it's quite easy for a genuine applicant to get lost in the ocean, so to speak. Thanks everybody for their patience and understanding.
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Ingilborg Sigmundardottir
"Beware ulven, hun bjeffer ikke."
"Beware the wolf, she doesn't need to bark."
Semidomesticus.

[Ingilborg]

In addition to the above, unfortunately due to the continual 20-50 requests per day to join this forum--all of them from spam bots--when you apply for an account you will now be asked to enter text from a text box and also answer a challenge question "What is shot from a bow?" If you are a human archer you should know the answer to that. The good news is, it will lead to our ability to open new accounts faster, since we no longer have to clean out the request board twice a day!
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Ingilborg Sigmundardottir
"Beware ulven, hun bjeffer ikke."
"Beware the wolf, she doesn't need to bark."
Semidomesticus.