The subject of this topic makes it possible for moderators to disable forum registrations by editing the subject to include the word “disabled” somewhere in the subject.
Some possibilities for a subject that will disable registrations are:
User Registration Status: DISABLED
User Registration Status: DISABLED by nygrrrl
A possibility for a subject that will enable registrations is:
User Registration Status: enabled
It may be helpful to reply to this topic with the reasons why you disabled or enabled user registrations to help others decide when it is appropriate to change things.
Also, FYI, when registrations are disabled, below is the message I currently show people who attempt to register.
Registrations have been temporarily disabled. Please try again in a few hours. If you are unable find an opening to register within a day or so, then please click the contact link and request to be notified of the next open window for registrations.
Also, if someone disables registrations in the ACP then registrations will be disabled regardless of what the subject of this topic is. For this topic to work, registrations need to be enabled in the ACP. Unless something unusual happens, registrations should stay enabled in the ACP and disabling registrations should be handled by this topic.
Yes, it is working where you can edit the title to enable or disable registrations. You can enable registrations now if you want. If problems happen you can resort to disabling registrations. I’m still working on additional tools. One or two additional tools may be done tonight, and I hope to get even more for you all starting early next week.
I’m assuming you just forgot to enable registrations again so I went ahead and enabled them, but let me know if there is still an issue where we need registrations disabled.
09-10-16 1 pm pacific time - I’m disabling registrations briefly because C.J. came back as Johninthebox and posted a thread titled: “This is CJ. If I’m banned agin, sublime will see his IRL name plastered across this board” (the post said something like “Go ahead, do it,” or the like). I banned the IP (it was an anonymous proxy) and the account, but I thought rather than chase anonymous proxied-accounts around all afternoon if he was really interested in being a dick, I would just disable registrations for a bit to give him time to get bored. (I deleted the thread to avoid drama/giving him any attention, but you can see the title in the moderator logs.)
