Anonymous Users and their useless posts...

The debate on guests posting is an old one. It was enabled initially at the very beginning.

As spam post increased, I mean real pam (not Fitnah khors), spam like "Thank you! 32095720" or "Buy now very good site! Check my site" constantly, I began creating measures to decrease this. It was on and off.

Eventually, I disabled guests posting and the spam decrease by 30-40% - Then there were many many more customisations until 95% of spam was killed.

Registering is not always the best option. I myself don't like t register anywhere unless I become a heavy user.

I also noticed that the guest who posted often before is now a registered member and posts as both guest and member. It is my responsibility to not disclose the username as their choice to remain anonymous is their choice.

We must respect the wishes of general users within its limits. If they wish to post as a guest, we thank them for their contribution. It's a good thing. I feel that if it was not allowed, we'd have that many less posts.

Visits in the past 2 months have increased heavily and as much as I give full credit to your contributions (members), I have to give a little credit to the guests.

Guest posting and anonymous entries have always been around. It's part of the "pull" and the user friendly side of site services. If they paste anything from another site or a specific 'Aalim, remember that we do not own the rights to that information so they can post from it. (I hope I'm not being too direct ummi taalib). I'm doing my best to put this nicely.

Now that the forum is not a freely available GNU Public licensed forum and it's build from scratch (i.e. hidden code), spam is almost impossible and Alhamdulillah since we've started this new forum, there's not been a single automated spam. Just a few genuine human submitted advert attempts.

So guest posting was enabled again in certain forums only. If a person does not like guests taking part in their topics, we also have an option to create a private forum for members and subscribers of the private usergroup only such as the members research group.

This way, we have taken care of all parties and muftisays.com remains in the words of the Hadeeth, along the best path.. "Khayrul Umoori Awsatuha" the best way is a balanced way (in between).

I hope this clears all the frustration guests might have caused and why I was pretty clear before the topic even started the guests will not be disabled again.

We do still have restrictions on them
visual confirmation
no links
many keyword filters
no subscription
can't start new topics
can only reply on some forums
etc

So it's not all good but they choose to post as guest, we can only assume there's a reason and give them the benefit of the doubt.

Jazakumullah to all the authorizers for your countless contributions and Allah knows exactly how much easier you have all made it for me to increase services here over the past year or so. Truly amazing contribution and the rewards will never be known till they are rewarded.

I admit I'm really really lazy and can't be bothered to make an account.