The dumbest thing a forum owner can do =

[mkx]

I was doing some thinking and realized that I have never returned to a I joined that required manual verifications (once you sign up a mod or admin has to approve your account). When someone joins your forum it is usually at a time when they are ready to make a new thread, unless your forum requires members to register before viewing topics which is even stupider because your threads won't be spidered on google. Anyways, thats why I join forums and when I can't post the thread right away, I just find another forum for the same topic which you can always find and join there, verify my email, and bookmark the post. I then ignore the acceptance email from the 1st forum I tried to join.

There are other ways to get out spammers and bad apples.

[nico-t]

i agree its fucking annoying. I once joined a wm forum several times, and it was constantly declined by the webmaster, i couldnt understand it. Seemed all fields were set on mandatory or something, if theyd have a field of 'whats your favourite color' even that wouldve been mandatory.... retarded shit

[The Judge]

there are reasons why it's done, obviously owners know it may ward off some posters but the benefits outweigh it

[lbc213]

I require registration on my forum to post but its instant verifacation not webmaster approved.

[Matt 26z]

Another killer is when a noob thinks he can niche the board out into 15 different forums. Like someone is going to click on all those to read the five threads in each one.