User Profiles

For new user sign up or registration, they need to come in at a low level with no ability to post or comment. On my site (beavertonbahai.org) I get 5-20 registration requests per week from spammers all over the world. I set up captcha on the form for bots and several questions in my register form to weed out people who are not seriously interested in the faith.
http://www.beavertonbahai.org/user/register

If they do not put something meaningful for interests, I assume that they are not serious and delete the accounts. If they put in something good, I upgrade them to "contributing user" so they can post and comment and send them a welcome email.

When newly registered users were allowed to post or comment, I got several 1000 spam posts and comments in a week or so (even with captcha on registering). I set the permissions for accounts that I had not vetted to the same as anonymous. They can't do anything.

I also have captcha on the contact forms. I get several inquiries per month from local seekers, Baha'is traveling to the area, students wanting to write reports on us, requests for speakers, etc.

Tom