WTF University - Moving on to MASTER DEGREE!!

Rich, thank you so much for all the hard work, cold hard cash and many, many hours that you and cliff have put into this place and continue to put into it.<br><br>
This has been a rough week for the site, but your dedication and commitment to providing this great place is obvious.<br><br>
It truly is appreciated by myself and I am sure everyone here.<br><br>
I just wanted to publicly say <span style="font-size:xx-large;"><i><span style="font-family:'Century Gothic';"><b><span style="color:#0000FF;">Thank you</span></b></span></i></span> to both you and Cliff. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/notworthy.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="notworthy"><br><br>
So heres my thank you along with a promise to buy you both a beer, or six, if I ever see either of you again! <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Very Happy"><br><br><span style="font-size:300%;"><span style="color:#0000FF;"><i><b>Thank you!</b></i></span></span> <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/occasion14.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="occasion5">

<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/stop.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="stop">As far as email accounts, I think that eliminating yahoo, hotmail, gmail etc would prevent a lot of people from registering. Those emails are not the ones that have been a problem. From all the people that I have approved, I havent seen many of those that were not legit. Almost all of those people have been back on the site posting or at the very least, lurking. Even for me, gmail is all I use. Many people use those emails for anything online. IMO, it would discourage people from registering here. (I could, however, give you loooong list of domains that are a problem. I never realized how much porn is out there! <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/shock.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Shock">)<br><br>
The only problem issue with these is the easy availability of using them for puppets. But this is easily caught using IP addy checks, so that really isnt an issue IMO. So far we have only had that happen a couple of times and it was easily caught and stopped.<br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/headbang.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="headbang">Actual Acknowlegement : As far as emailing and waiting for a response to activate, thats a good idea. I think that this would be a good way to ensure that registrations are legit with actual email addresses and real people. I see this happen all the time at other sites. I think this is a pretty routine request from websites and wouldnt discourage people <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="thumbup"><br><br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/stop.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="stop">Referral only? Nope, that would eliminate people that found us using only a google search or someone not coming from other places that currently give us free advertising on occasion. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Very Happy"> Dont like that option at all.<br><br>
But, whatever it takes to keep the hackers out is all good.<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="thumbup"><br><br>
I'll continue to give it some thought. Look forward to seeing other's ideas who are much more creative than I! (paging diablita<img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="http://www.kickrunners.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="Very Happy">)