How to remove verification via email? It only hinders me from raising the forum, I don’t need “protection” from spam. I didn’t find a good answer to this question
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The discussion revolves around the topic of registration without email verification on a Discourse forum. wellwellwell wants to remove email verification as it hinders forum growth, but pfaffman suggests that this could make the site a spam source and target. Instead, pfaffman proposes using an alternative authentication system like Wordpress with DiscourseConnect, which can be configured to bypass email validation. Jagster agrees with pfaffman and emphasizes that email validation protects both users and the forum from spam and unwanted emails, highlighting the importance of validation in preventing the forum from becoming a spam relay.
The easiest way to make your site a spam source (anyone can cause anyone else to receive email they don’t want–this happens to people I know with some frequency) and target (you don’t know that the people who are logging in even have an email address) as you desire is to use some other authentication system, like Wordpress, and make it be the DiscourseConnect server. You can configure WordPress not to validate email addresses and add some code to your functions.php that will tell Discourse that the email addresses have been validated (See “Remove the require_activation flag” in the link below).
See Configure single sign-on (SSO) with WP Discourse and DiscourseConnect
And Jay’s way means it will be higher hinder than email validation — and that’s good.
As Jay said the most important meaning of validation is not fight against spam, but protect people that aren’t part of a forum.
And there is another point. When those unwanted mails starts come from a forum that forum is quite fast banned from everywhere, not that false user. So… it protects forum not to be another spam relay.
We have here a plugin that allow answering with email only and without registration. I would like to use it, but because it isn’t validating receiver I just can’t use it as an admin. Such system is so unlegal wide almost all sivilized world.