THIS WAS THE OLD WEBSITE REGISTRATION PROCESS NO LONGER IN PLACE William 11/11/2022
Many of you have a chance to view this site and would like to participate but don't know how to go about getting started .Well that's what i'm here for as administrator -to help you out.Many times I get people who try over and over to register and are not able to. I personally have the very difficult task of figuring what Username/Registrations coming in are legitimate .It is sometimes a difficult task to figure out which new registration is legitimate for us to approve.We have set up shark fishing related questions to help us cut through the possible Spam that tries to get on the site. ONE WAY TO REGISTER A USERNAME IS TO SEND US A MESSEGE FIRST.BELOW THE FORUM HEADER ON THE RIGHT THERE IS A THE 'CONTACT US' LINK CLICK ON IT AND SEND US AN EMAIL at info@southfloridasharkclub.com stating the Username you want to register and we will approve it usually the same day we recieve your email. AFTER WE YOU HAVE SENT US THE USERNAME WE KNOW TO LOOK FOR IT.ANOTHER WAY TO REGISTER A USERNAME ON OUR FORUM you will see on the left SIDE UP TOP a "Register"tab next to a "Login" tab please click on the "Register" and fill in the few questions that are asked and click on the "Submit" tab at the bottom of the questionaire and I will then approve you once we have recieved your email teliing us the USERNAME you registered.Thank you very much for taking the time to Register a username ,we look forward to your participation As a last resort If you are having difficulty registering a username on our site you can contact me and inform me of your username and I will gladly activate your account as soon as I am able.Thank you.CONTACT Will 786-797-5712 We look forward to having you with us in this one of a kind fishing website.
SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB -President SFSC-Founding Member est 1983 SFSC-Website Administrator BIG HAMMER SHARK TOURNAMENT -Founder Rene Memorial Sharkathon -Founder NMFS Shark Tagger
William, i would like to make you a suggestion on how to eliminate all these spam.
I looked over on this website's registration process, and the reason why you getting so much spam is because your "Confirmation of registration" is completely inefficient. Technically speaking it was proven many many times, that this type of cod generator can be bypass easily by bots. In other words, whatever "user spam" you'll gonna see registered was actually NOT created manually, there were created by a software programed to generate users like these, with the hole purpose to advertise all thous things that you mention in your post.
So, the most efficient way to cut 99% of these spammer bots, is to create Questions And Answers instead of letting the "Confirmation of registration" cod generator to do the job.
If you do that William, you'll cut 99% of your time to fish for a true user from a pool of software generated spam users.
To give you an example please take a look at this and look in the "Confirmation of registration" area. You'll see a fishing question there where the answer is self-explanatory, if a fisherman wants to sign up . That's proven to cut 99% of these spammers, they software CAN NOT BYPASS THAT - ONLY MANUALLY, which they won't waste time, since they don't even visit the website in the first place, just they software does.
To create thous questions, log into your "Administration Control Panel" and look for "Spambot countermeasures" which is usually listed under your "Board configuration". After you clicked "Spambot countermeasures", take a look if you have installed the "Q&A" Plug-in. If you do, select that, click "Configure" and add there whatever questions you may think, a fishermen would know. If you don't have that plug-in installed, stick with your way, by sending that email, its just a pain for every new user to pay attention to that, since many click "Register" in hopes to get registered.
William, i would like to make you a suggestion on how to eliminate all these spam.
I looked over on this website's registration process, and the reason why you getting so much spam is because your "Confirmation of registration" is completely inefficient. Technically speaking it was proven many many times, that this type of cod generator can be bypass easily by bots. In other words, whatever "user spam" you'll gonna see registered was actually NOT created manually, there were created by a software programed to generate users like these, with the hole purpose to advertise all thous things that you mention in your post.
So, the most efficient way to cut 99% of these spammer bots, is to create Questions And Answers instead of letting the "Confirmation of registration" cod generator to do the job.
If you do that William, you'll cut 99% of your time to fish for a true user from a pool of software generated spam users.
To give you an example please take a look at this and look in the "Confirmation of registration" area. You'll see a fishing question there where the answer is self-explanatory, if a fisherman wants to sign up . That's proven to cut 99% of these spammers, they software CAN NOT BYPASS THAT - ONLY MANUALLY, which they won't waste time, since they don't even visit the website in the first place, just they software does.
To create thous questions, log into your "Administration Control Panel" and look for "Spambot countermeasures" which is usually listed under your "Board configuration". After you clicked "Spambot countermeasures", take a look if you have installed the "Q&A" Plug-in. If you do, select that, click "Configure" and add there whatever questions you may think, a fishermen would know. If you don't have that plug-in installed, stick with your way, by sending that email, its just a pain for every new user to pay attention to that, since many click "Register" in hopes to get registered.
Just for info.
There is 0 YES i said 0 spam and or junk/trash making it into any posts on this site. "as far as i can tell"
Yes plenty of spam makes it to me and or will and is quickly purged before it ever can get posted.
IF this suggestion your talking about will help with my work, Great! But as i said it is a moot point since all spam is interdicted before it can make it to post.
BTW i believe he already has those settings done that way, "guessing".
I think William knows what's best for this website. Let's just leave it like that.
Mojo and Boghy as well as Josh Jergenson have been instrumental in helping out with suggestions and I AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR THE HELP.
Mojo is OUR BEST MODERATOR, tireless in his contributions to this site ,,,,,every single day he deletes ads that almost make it into the site then ZZZZaaaaaapppp!! he deletes them for us usually before we're even awake he is an angel in disquise and I am forever cognizant of his work,Thanks to all but specially our Guardian Angel Mojo (Greg Dowdy)
SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB -President SFSC-Founding Member est 1983 SFSC-Website Administrator BIG HAMMER SHARK TOURNAMENT -Founder Rene Memorial Sharkathon -Founder NMFS Shark Tagger
MoJo Hands Willie a Dollar bill 
PS: I want a hoodie this year!