Reply To: Energy output calculations?

[Rezwan]

The problem is that I don’t have time, and I’ve left a lot of people who want to sign up wait for quite a while before getting to the activation. I’m sure that’s a big turnoff.

A compromise: I have now set up member self-activation, but the default class is “Member2”. Such members are still not able to post in the forums, but they can at least get started on their profiles, and they have immediate response that way.

In order to post, they need an “upgrade”. For that, they have to contact me, and say they want an upgrade. Then they get “Member” status, so that’s like “1st class” : )

I suspect there’s more we can do with the registration form to weed people out – like require address and phone numbers and other such info just to register. And an email verification where the recipient has to click to activate… Not sure how to set that up. If it’s something simple, we’ll attempt it. Note to tech folks, we use expression engine for this forum if you want to research some ways of beefing up the registration process.