[wp-forums] New Forum Users and their Profiles

[Handy]

If you see Mike, give him nudge in our direction :-)

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Sam Bauers <sam at automattic.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I replied to this before seeing Mike's responses on the previous
> thread.
>
> I thought you were referring to the core bbPress changes that took place
> recently, rather than the special treatment the WordPress forums have
> received recently.
>
> Sam
>
>
> On 27/07/2008, at 8:43 PM, Sam Bauers wrote:
>
>  I understand that we're blocking new users from their profiles for a
>>> length
>>> of time.
>>>
>>> * How long?
>>> * What's the purpose? If it is truly to block spammers, how's it working
>>> out? (or heck, how does this block spammers anyways?)
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't block spammers, it just denies them a profile page until they
>> verify their registration.
>>
>>  There's a fair number of posts in the past month related to new users not
>>> being able to manage their profiles. The two most common complaints
>>> appear
>>> to be related to not being able to see their topics list or change their
>>> password. Speaking for myself, not being able to see my topics list would
>>> drive me away...
>>>
>>
>> I'll give this a look and see if I can find what is up, clearly there is a
>> lingering problem.
>>
>>  Is this a temporary or stop-gap change?
>>> Are there plans to get back to normal at some point?
>>>
>>
>> It's meant to be temporary, hopefully the problems it's causing won't be
>> :)
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>