p.s, the members must ask richod by e-mail if they can be on the list. that way, memebers will not just be added to the list automaticly.

Spammers can enter a text based authorisation code, but would they bother? Spambots would likely not be complicat4ed enough to locate the code unaided, and people trying to spam wouldn't bother spamming here in my view because there's nothing to gain. Spam adverts for mainstream games would have no impact, and if someone's just being a pest then simply find their IP and lock it out if they've a persistent IP address.

On the other hand requiring the entry of a valid email address and asking for a confirmation response is another matter. I don't think it would be a good idea to make the admins vet every single new member, all we can do is try and stop spambots and try to catch as many of any manual spammers as we can. We don't want to shut out new members.

If email response confirmation is used then it could be possible to lock out certain emails of known spammers. They could use alternate email addresses, but pretty quickly they'll run out of them.

Hi Guys!

Thanks for the suggestions. Although we seriously dislike spam, at the moment we think the audiogames forum is a great place and spam is not a real problem at the time. When things chance, the steps we have to undertake in order to keep this place nice will change, but at the time the abuse of the forum is very low.

We want to keep this place as open as possible (that's why we even have a guest post room, which is quite extraordinary. The guest room is separated in order to keep possible spam at a specific place. All kinds of joining codes and verification methods will make the threshold for joining higher and at the time we disabled these options. I hope we will never need them...

Yesterday a guy joined with an offensive name and posted an offensive message. I removed the thread and banned the user + ip. This was no spammer, but probably an angry brother, class mate or room mate. No big deal, offensive behavior is ban. The rest of you guys are doing great!

Please let us know when a message is offensive and we will delete it.

About the new rooms, how many of you are interested in separated rooms for modding, developing, off topic stuff etc?
Which rooms do you prefer?

Also have a look at the game accessibility forum. Although the subject of this forum is much larger, you can see that the forum is far more complicated.

http://www.game-accessibility.com/forum/

Would you appreciate a poll in order to find out the wishes of the audiogames community?

reguarding the spamming, I'm glad there's not a huge amount, and it's nice to see a forum that's easy to join and participate in.

I wasn't thinking of specific rooms for moding or off topic discussion, just rooms about the different sorts of games, but perhaps a pole would sort things out and be democratic as well.