Fellow threadafficianados,

I am sitting here setting up my first threads based website. I am trying to weight the pros and cons of setting up threads to email the member a generated password (for email confirmation) or just let them register without email confirmation.

I am hoping some of you guys have tried it both ways and have some input on how it effects memberships signups. Does the added "hassle" factor of making a new member check his/her email and using a gnerated password to login for the first time effecting signup percentages.

Hope this makes sense

Thanks in advance for the help!

I've tried it both ways (I'm talking about Threads registration here options ). I just let people make their own password and sign-up w/o having to confirm their email at first. Anyhow, I felt the same way that I didn't wan the registration to be a hassle. The problem w/ this method is that people sign up who don't ever log in once, and I think this is due to bots crawling the net.

Later on I turned email confirmation on and the registrations dropped. That way, I was reasonably certain that new users were real people and not computers.

Later on I added PhotoPost and got about a dozen people a day signing up, just to look at the photo galleries. They didn't participate in the forums, and I knew nothing about them because they never changed their profiles. I even commissioned the Registration Mod so that they would HAVE to fill out their profile during registration. I guess that can be considered a hassle, making them fill out all their info, but at least I get to know something about these people.

I've even gone so far to add the Auto-Group change mod so that people would have to write X number of messages in the forums in order to have access to all the galleries. I AM thinking about removing that requirement.

As far as hassles go, I think the only hassle for your users is perhaps not letting them pick their own password during regsitration. For some people, figuring out how to change their password may be a hassle, so why not let them pick the one they want when they register? So, making people confirm their email is NOT a hassle. Randomly generated passwords ARE a hassle.

well if I could read Spanish I would be all over your site you have some sexy girls pics on the entrance

You can sign up and change the language to English from your control panel. There are over 3,000 pictures of them They're all actreesses or singers. I highly recommend Bárbara Mori