Maintainer post: Membership cleanup

[pne]

After the recent spam, I decided to clean up the posting settings of the community as well as the membership.

Previously, anybody could post to this community, whether they were a member of it or not; I have changed this to require users to be members before they can post. Since membership is open (anyone can join without needing to be approved by a maintainer), I trust this is not a large hurdle, but it will hopefully cut down a bit on drive-by spambot posting. If members think it would be better to allow non-members to continue to post, I’ll reconsider.

Entries with links to non-whitelisted domains will be held for moderation.

I also went through the membership list and removed all accounts that no longer existed (deleted and purged) as well as those that had posting access but no membership. There were surprisingly many of the latter; I’m not sure how that came about. If those users wish to continue posting, they will have to join the community, which should automatically give them back the posting access they had previously.

I trust these changes will cause no hardship for legitimate posters.

If there are any problems (for example, with spam entries or annoying comments), feel free to contact me-I don’t watch every entry so might not spot things myself.