[wp-forums] Re: New Forum Users and their Profiles

[Handy]

Thoughts, comments or answers to the below?

Please?

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Handy <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Questions for the folks managing the bbPress forums software.
>
> 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?)
>
> 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...
>
> Is this a temporary or stop-gap change?
> Are there plans to get back to normal at some point?
>
> Thanks for any light to be shed. If nothing else, we need to be able to get
> a consistent message out to folks.
>