China DOS Union

To All:

After logging in to the forum today, I found that the forum has made many detailed adjustments. The following are the discoveries:

1. In the non-logged-in interface, a prompt "Please register or log in to use various functions of the forum" has been added, including:
Top center of the forum homepage:
Please note: You are currently not registered or logged in. Please register or log in to use various functions of the forum.

Top center of the sub-forum and bottom of the topic browsing page:
Please note: You are currently not registered or logged in. Please register or log in to use various functions of the forum, such as posting and replying to posts.

2. The email verification function has been added to the forum registration page, which can verify validity and uniqueness; later, due to some problems with validity verification, it was withdrawn, and the uniqueness verification is still retained, that is, one email can only apply for one forum account;

3. The "online list" of forum users has been added to the sub-forum page of the forum, and the list of "guests" has been added to the "online list" on the forum homepage;

4. Restrict non-registered or non-logged-in users from directly browsing the administrative area;

5. Some minor modifications to the login page, such as setting the default login save time to 1 year, etc.;

6. The reward points for creating new topics in the forum have been adjusted to 6 points, and the reward points for posting replies have been adjusted to 2 points;

Please confirm and supplement the above adjustments by administrators and all users. According to the "Proposal on Publicizing Moderation Affairs", it is also suggested that the administrator post the content of this adjustment on the forum announcement.

The following is the excerpt of the discussion short message from the administrator "Proposal on Adding Restrictions to User Registration":

Proposal on Adding Restrictions to User Registration
From: willsort
To: autoit Wengier
Time: 2005-11-2 19:53
Content: By November 2nd, there are already 44,465 members in this forum, which can be said to have reached a large scale and needs to be managed in a constrained manner. Therefore, it is suggested that the administrator increase registration restrictions, such as the most common email verification, which is also convenient for user management. What do you think?

Re: Proposal on Adding Restrictions to User Registration
From: autoit
To: willsort
Time: 2005-11-3 17:13
Content:
Adopted! Thank you.

Re: Proposal on Adding Restrictions to User Registration
From: Wengier
To: willsort
Time: 2005-11-5 14:18
Content: Regarding the issue of increasing registration restrictions, Dark-Destroy and I just discussed it. Your suggestion itself is good, but I am worried about one thing. I found that there are quite a lot of online users in the forum recently, but among them, it often seems that most are guests, and the number of registered/logged-in users is relatively small compared to guests. I don't know whether these people are not registered or just not logged in. Therefore, I am worried that if registration restrictions are increased, more people may not register and become guests. What do you think? If you have any good ideas, you can also put them forward.

Re: Proposal on Adding Restrictions to User Registration
From: willsort
To: Wengier
Time: 2005-11-5 19:42
Content: Regarding the phenomenon that the number of unlogged-in people is greater than the number of logged-in users, this actually exists in most forums that do not restrict browsing and has little to do with whether registration is restricted. The biggest reason for not logging in is not registering, and the reason for not registering is because there is no need to post. If you want to reduce this part of the number of people, the most effective method is to restrict the browsing rights of unlogged-in users, not the simple registration method. And the current registration form actually indulges and gives birth to phenomena such as multiple accounts per person, arbitrary accounts, and advertisements and spam posts.

Re: Proposal on Adding Restrictions to User Registration
From: Wengier
To: willsort
Time: 2005-11-6 00:24
Content: I just tried to restrict the browsing rights of each section in the administrative area for unlogged-in users and prohibited direct browsing. For user registration, the email activation function has been turned on, and multiple accounts per person are not allowed.

Re: Proposal on Adding Restrictions to User Registration
From: Wengier
To: willsort
Time: 2005-11-6 11:22
Content: I don't know what the reason is. Now I find that the email verification function of the forum seems to have some bugs, resulting in sometimes verification failure and the problem that "Newcomer's Guide" becomes a VIP (for details, please see the latest discussion in the forum administrative area). Therefore, it seems that the email verification function cannot be enabled for the time being to avoid these problems. However, the verification that the same email address can only register one mailbox can continue to be used, which should not cause problems.

I have added some adjustment contents above.

Re Wengier:

5、Some minor modifications to the login page, such as setting the default login save time to 1 year, etc.;

But here, the default is "browser process"?

Originally posted by willsort at 2005-11-9 06:44 PM:
Re Wengier:



But here it is defaulted to "browser process"?

This is strange. Here, the default is indeed 1 year. Both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox have been tried.

Re Wengier:

This is a screenshot of my login interface. Now recalling, it seems that it was originally defaulted to one year, maybe this change occurred after the modification this time, not sure.

In addition, there is a prompt "No Chinese account allowed" on the new registration page. I wonder if this prompt is really necessary? And how to handle the original Chinese accounts in the forum?

Re ressort:
Clear cookies and then try logging in to see how it goes.

Re JonePeng:

After clearing the cookies, there确实 changed, but interestingly, the result after the change is one month, not one year. The spatial relationship, I won't take screenshots anymore. But anyway, there's no major impact, so I can temporarily ignore it.

Originally posted by willsort at 2005-11-10 08:30 PM:
In addition, there is a prompt "Chinese usernames are not allowed" on the new registration page. I wonder if this prompt is really necessary? And how to handle the original Chinese usernames in the forum?

Actually, this is also a helpless move. Because after the forum was converted, many netizens often reflected to me that if a Chinese username is used for registration, an error message will appear, and the content of this error message is garbled and cannot be read. It is confirmed that this situation occurs, but it seems very troublesome to solve, and the specific reason cannot be found out for a while (maybe related to Unicode encoding). Therefore, this information has to be added to remind not to use Chinese or special symbols to register usernames. For the previous Chinese usernames, although they have all been retained, there is also a problem that, unlike English usernames that only need to be activated once directly to be used again, they must be contacted with the administrator to manually activate the original Chinese username. For example, here it is:
http://www.cn-dos.net/forum/viewthread.php?tid=17675&fpage=1
And if a new user wants to use a Chinese username, they also need to contact the administrator to set it as a Chinese username, otherwise only an English username can be used.

Related to encoding. Including the content of the message is also like this. Actually, DZ!2.5 has a simplified to traditional Chinese plugin, but I really didn't have time before.