Firstly, I understand the spam concern, but I believe that can be stopped. If a traditional registration form was to be implemented, it would save a lot of time for both the administrators and users, and allow efficient flow of data into the database without manual use. Also, if the focus is on manually creating accounts, it wastes potential time for other stuff that you, as admins, could be doing, rather than registering users onto the database. In the case of spamming, or botting, there can be an ‘I AM NOT A ROBOT’ authenticator, which I am sure you have seen before online, where users need to pass the BOT test to be able to submit the registration form. I also have asked people about what type of registration form they would prefer if they were attempting to register on a particular website. I had everyone telling me “seriously, why would I want admins to manually register an account for me, that is a waste of time, and self-registering saves so much time”. So what I am trying to say is that, like myself, people have suggested that they would be more appealed to a self-registration user account system, and that there is a high chance that people would lose appeal to the software/program/system and leave it.
I hope you can understand my perspective, and perhaps see the sense in a traditional registration system. Kind regards, Ahmad Alawsie From: Andrea Pescetti<mailto:pesce...@apache.org> Sent: 08 February 2018 07:47 To: l10n@openoffice.apache.org<mailto:l10n@openoffice.apache.org> Subject: Re: Alternative solution for Pootle registration troubles... Ahmad Alawsie wrote: > I have raised this suggestion on Github: > https://github.com/translate/pootle/issues/6805 where you can see what I > think could be done to smoothen the registration process for a Pootle account. That one is not a Pootle issue, so you can close that issue. That is just a matter of how we setup it. The current setup is that we prefer to reduce spam, so new accounts are only created on request in all our infrastructure (wiki, Pootle, everywhere). Still, even if we decided to let user self-create an account, all these systems require e-mail verification, so we would still have exactly the same problem. Actually, creating accounts manually is the only way to have the workaround available: we just force a temporary random password and send it to the user. Regards, Andrea. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: l10n-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: l10n-h...@openoffice.apache.org
