> I admit I don't check mametesters. I rarely would report anything and its front-page
> it's a big turn off: "We'll evaluate first if you are worth our time so meanwhile go
> bug Mame Chat".
The main page writeup is simply fact and not meant to be mean sprited or a turn-off. In fact, it was hoped that people would respect the effort being made to keep everything clean that they would understand the initial delay. I'll admit the solution is not the most elegant and the whole process could be explained better, I'm sure. The initial delay only comes when you first signup to the site and generally it is 24 hours or less before an Administrator (I am the only regular one at the moment) can take the time to make sure is the user is known, fake and/or purposely using a proxy or otherwise. The suggestion to use EmuChat is for those who haven't the patience to wait out the process and are compelled to report their bug immediately. You can sign up there and post here - no biggie and when you are authorized to Tester that is it, free reign. I would hope you would consider signing up sometime anyway.
The reason it is this way was that some time ago we had a rash of users (might have been just a couple) who would purposely post junk report, leave nonsense notes and push dozens of reports for no reason and otherwise damage the database causing a lot of confusion and cleanup work by everyone involved. After adding the initial delay MameTesters has turned into a much saner place where we generally have much better reports in place because of it. Anyway, everything is subject to change and the stance might be reevaluated sooner or later.
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