A few weeks ago we had some undesirable people posing as geocachers create profiles on SWAG and subsequently spam our user base. As soon as I noticed, I blocked the users from ever again joining our ranks, but the damage was done. I didn't want a single incident to happen, but was unable to avoid it.

After that incident, I added a process that any new users must request approval to become a SWAG member; however, the change to the site didn't actually take effect. Last week Pablo and I took a lo… Continue