Minor change in philosophy

[DaFace]

Back when I joined ChiefsPlanet, new users could pretty much register, confirm their email address, and immediately start posting. That meant that we often got a lot of n00bs during game weeks from opposing fans, for example, because they wanted to jump in and talk about the game.

At some point maybe 3-5 years ago, a change was made in an attempt to keep out recently-banned users and porn spammers that required every new user to be manually approved by a mod before they'd be allowed to post. In concept, this makes a lot of sense. In reality, though, it resulted in large delays between registration and being able to post that ranged from a few hours to more than a week (depending on how often the mods checked the queue and went through everyone).

As an experiment, starting today we're going back to the old approach. It may not last, but we want to see if we see an uptick in n00b participation. Hopefully it's a change for the better, but we'll see.

Related to that, though, the mods won't be able to keep the "bad guys" from getting into the Planet in the first place, so please use the report function to report anything we should take a close look at. In addition, if you have infraction powers and someone starts spamming porn all over the place, feel free to infract the hell out of them until the mods can get in and take care of it.

No promises it'll stay this way, but we figured we'd give it a try.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by Romosexual

...I mean, I made it super tough. I'm so surprised you figured it out so fast.

I've got eyes like a hawk.

[bevischief]

Then the midgets

[Reerun_KC]

And thread hijacked.


Zzzzzzzzz

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by TimBone

I've got eyes like a hawk.

Like this hawk?

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

And thread hijacked.


Zzzzzzzzz

Yeah, I'm gonna be a bit more forceful and move some posts out of here.

[C3HIEF3S]

With the return of Hootie, this doesn't bode well for Royals Planet.

[Reerun_KC]

Welcome back Hootie.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by C3HIEF3S

With the return of Hootie, this doesn't bode well for Royals Planet.

As far as I know, Royals Planet is dead. That's where last night's hack came from, and it's not worth AustinChief's effort to go through all the updates necessary to close the security bug.

[Reerun_KC]

Well bye royals planet.

[carcosa]

good web page

[C3HIEF3S]

Originally Posted by DaFace

As far as I know, Royals Planet is dead. That's where last night's hack came from, and it's not worth AustinChief's effort to go through all the updates necessary to close the security bug.

RIP Royals Planet

2016-2017

Death by Algerian AIDS

[Hootie]

When 2017 becomes the greatest n00b year in history, do I get the majority of the credit, or ... ?

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[wazu]

Originally Posted by DaFace

As far as I know, Royals Planet is dead. That's where last night's hack came from, and it's not worth AustinChief's effort to go through all the updates necessary to close the security bug.

I knew it couldn't be that someone targeted Chiefs fans. Who could feel anything but pity for Chiefs fans? Royals make more sense.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Romosexual

When 2017 becomes the greatest n00b year in history, do I get the majority of the credit, or ... ?

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[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by Romosexual

When 2017 becomes the greatest n00b year in history, do I get the majority of the credit, or ... ?

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Don't be a brc