Membership/deleted users trying to rejoin

[Bonas08]

Forum URL: bonabandwagon.proboards.com/board/2/general-board

So I run a sports forum for the college I attended, and every now and then we get some spammers who cause fights and get banned.  Issue is, its hard to tell if they make a new account with a different IP address, to tell if its really a new user, or them under a new name.  I was wondering if there was any way to update the requirements to make a new account, that way they are forced to answer questions as to who they are, how they knew of the forum, etc before I just accept a random name.

Is any of this possible, if so please direct me to how I can change this!

Thanks!

[Brian]

Hi, Bonas08.

If you turn on the Restrict Registration feature in Settings > Forum Settings > Login & Registration you can add a Restricted Registration Message specifying what information they need to provide alongside their registration before you approve their account. Turning on the Allow Request Message option will add a field after registration that enables them to type this information.

You can view the information they submit via the View link shown under the Request column in Members > Pending Registrations.

[Bonas08]

Jul 26, 2018 14:41:54 GMT -8 Brian said:

Hi, Bonas08 .

If you turn on the Restrict Registration feature in Settings > Forum Settings > Login & Registration you can add a Restricted Registration Message specifying what information they need to provide alongside their registration before you approve their account. Turning on the Allow Request Message option will add a field after registration that enables them to type this information.

You can view the information they submit via the View link shown under the Request column in Members > Pending Registrations.

Thank you!  I will give this a try!