Hey there! To hop onto this server, we just need you to answer a few questions. Don’t worry, an admin will check them out before giving you the green light! This little step helps us make sure you’re a real human and not a bot. You aren’t a bot, are you? 🤨
It’s a longer message, but much more casual and friendly.
I knew that, but didn’t feel the need to include that because that is far from the norm. I still feel like my original message is pretty good and friendly; we could make slight modifications.
Hm, that’s far from typical so I’m not sure how a generic dialogue would accommodate both. World might want to hide the dialogue on web front ends, though I’m not sure how to also get that reflected in apps like Mlem.
SJW doesn’t have an application question and this from Sunaurus in the parent comment seems to imply they manually approve applications as well:
We have a custom question on our sign-up page asking people to state they agree to our rules, and it’s relatively common that people just don’t read the question and write something random in there - we generally don’t accept such applications to try and weed out bots, but I’m pretty sure we also end up rejecting a bunch of legit users this way who just didn’t read the instructions.
I’d be interested to know how World automates their sign up process. Guessing from their application question they might just look for the phrase “I agree to the TOS” in answers, which would be fairly simple to implement but I wouldn’t personally feel confident in it.
World just has a bot that checks the answer and also if the person’s email is a known temp email (or not a whitelisted email provider). They also seem to have modified it so the application is sent at the same time as email verification.
The delay itself is friction actually but I don’t think that’s avoidable I guess. In an ideal world you’d be off and going as soon as you hit register.
Maybe something like
It may take a moment to process your application
or something sounds less scary than needing to be approved.
I see. @flamingos@feddit.uk, do you think it would be possible to change the message to make it less “scary” to potential new joiners?
Sure, you’d just have to change this line, though I’m no sure what would be better.
It’s a longer message, but much more casual and friendly.
Admins don’t manually check each application for the largest servers
I knew that, but didn’t feel the need to include that because that is far from the norm. I still feel like my original message is pretty good and friendly; we could make slight modifications.
I would just go from
Seems less formal the application, and removes the “select” aspect (which is deterrent based on the Reddit comments).
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu, what do you think?
But that doesn’t make it clear that the application needs to be approved before the user can use their account.
Because that’s not always the case. For LW for instance
https://lemmy.world/post/27088404/15832884
Hm, that’s far from typical so I’m not sure how a generic dialogue would accommodate both. World might want to hide the dialogue on web front ends, though I’m not sure how to also get that reflected in apps like Mlem.
Lemm.ee also automated some the detection of bad actors
https://lemm.ee/post/57987370/18836511
Edit: SJW as well based on the parent comment
SJW doesn’t have an application question and this from Sunaurus in the parent comment seems to imply they manually approve applications as well:
I’d be interested to know how World automates their sign up process. Guessing from their application question they might just look for the phrase “I agree to the TOS” in answers, which would be fairly simple to implement but I wouldn’t personally feel confident in it.
Hello @sunaurus@lemm.ee, could you please provide more details, without revealing too much?
World just has a bot that checks the answer and also if the person’s email is a known temp email (or not a whitelisted email provider). They also seem to have modified it so the application is sent at the same time as email verification.
The delay itself is friction actually but I don’t think that’s avoidable I guess. In an ideal world you’d be off and going as soon as you hit register.
Maybe something like
or something sounds less scary than needing to be approved.
Some instances have an automated process, see my other comment