No difference between Basic and Approval registration?

squalle

I commented on this in another topic, but I thought I'd start it again, since there wasn't an answer to my issue.

It seems that Basic and Approval registration act exactly the same. Either way, a user has to fill out their email address, pick a username and password and why they want to join (which I would like to remove). Then it has "Security Check", stating I have to get an account to get an API key, which is what I'm trying to avoid.

I just want a new user to enter a username and password and I'll approve or deny them. Seems simple, but it's not working that way.

I don't have any plug-ins that have anything to do with registration. I did, but I disabled it prior to this posting this. I also deleted the ini files in the cache directory.

Anyone know of anything else that can get rid of the reCAPCHA?

Thanks!

vrijvlinder

@squalle said:
I commented on this in another topic, but I thought I'd start it again, since there wasn't an >answer to my issue.It seems that Basic and Approval registration act exactly the same.

No, Basic registration is just that. Anyone can register they just need to verify their email.

Approval means you must approve their registration in order to allow them to join regardless of email verification. They can't post until you approve them.

Anyone know of anything else that can get rid of the reCAPCHA?

Why ? Do you want spammers as users ?

I use Basic registration with captcha and also add a second captcha type plugin similar to Botstop but compatible with 2.2.1

https://vanillaforums.org/addon/addregistrationquestion-plugin

That should help keep spam bots at bay….

R_J

Good you rephrased your question, it's much clearer than your comment

Look at this to find your answer: https://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/235402/#Comment_235402

Jake___1

thanks RJ. My recapcha was not working and this plugin took care of it.

River

Hopefully this will be solved in the next release. recaptcha has been moved into a plugin and out of the core at last and at least in the cloud version. In a year or so it should be easier to turn it off, since it looks like it is not mandatory afaik or I hope so.

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/tree/master/plugins/recaptcha