Email Activation

[Sethenor2]

Hi, just wanted to ask the community about email activation

is it a good idea or a bad idea

tell me your thoughts

[DreamCoder]

from my point of view id say no because some people dont like going to to there email just to activate there account

[Analog]

Good

- prevents bots creating 1000s of accounts providing you store the users information in a temporary location until email is confirmed

- gives you away to contact users outside of the site/game environment, comes in especially handy if you are trying to survey why users are leaving

- provides another way to limit multiple accounts

[Danny696]

1) Use a captcha

2) If they left why would they respond...

3) Not really. People can register 1000's of emils etc...

[Dayo]

i personaly hate them but i do other things to prevent bots when any of my sites go live.

[Spudinski]

It's a far slower method than most modern ones, but it works well none-the-less.

Sophisticated bots can actually use a server and create email addresses themselves and pipe to them, it's not something a normal bot would do but I have seen this being done for professional uses.

Facebook and Twitter logins are still the fastest IMO, but using this is one alternative.

[Dave]

I personally hate sites that use email validation. It's take so much time and some people don't want sites spamming there inbox's. The fact also that a bot can easily create email accounts by just linking itself to an SMTP server, which would be incredibly easy within a simple "PHP Bot".

I'd say stick with Captcha's. A decent one there is no bypass for.

[a_bertrand]

Email verifications tend to simply not work due to spam filters. You should think what is the goal of such tool:

- Block bots? Can be done by creating a JS which generate the login button on the fly and bots will be blocked. No need of catcha even.

- Gather emails? Then don't do it like that, offer some bonus for people which enter a valid and confirmed email. Like 100$ of game cache in bonus.

[Spudinski]

Dave, you should learn to read. Your post is an exact copy of mine.

Bots can be programmed to accept Javascript, or even read the actual source to bypass it. A human always first checks the site/app they want to spam, and then create a script to bypass it. It's why it's called hacking.

[Dave]

Dave, you should learn to read. Your post is an exact copy of mine.

Bots can be programmed to accept Javascript, or even read the actual source to bypass it. A human always first checks the site/app they want to spam, and then create a script to bypass it. It's why it's called hacking.

I can read perfectly fine I just wanted to communicate that I believed in the same idea as you. Sorry if it wasn't needed.