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#  Tag Archives: registration

 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sippis/) [Timi Wahalahti](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sippis/)
9:32 pm _on_ August 4, 2020     
Tags: [#online-events ( 4 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/online-events/),
confirmation, registration, tickets   

# 󠀁[Proposal: Asking confirmation when registering for a free ticket](https://make.wordpress.org/community/2020/08/04/proposal-asking-confirmation-when-registering-for-a-free-ticket/)󠁿

In [a discussion on WordCamp.org Github repository](https://github.com/WordPress/wordcamp.org/issues/508)
[@coreymckrill](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coreymckrill/) brought up an idea
about asking a confirmation when an attendee registers for free WordCampWordCamp
WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related 
to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together
to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy.
[Learn more](https://central.wordcamp.org/about/). ticket.

The discussion started from mitigating the special accommodation request notice 
flood, especially with larger events, but soon shifted to the direction where it
was realised that it might not be so inclusive to ask confirmation only from attendees
ticking the special accommodation request box.

Because free tickets don’t have money transaction that verifies the purchase and
registration, our online WordCamp registrations are more open for different kind
of abuses. For example, a bot registering with unwanted link as their website that
will appear on attendees page, or someone doing a blackhat SEO tricks.

Adding a step of confirmation would prevent the abuse to some extent and as well
work as a reminder for the attendee that they are really enrolling for an event 
that some team has organised with lots of love towards it.

Only after the attendee would have clicked the link directing to page that does 
the confirmation, their information would be shown on public attendees list.

How about ticket quantities? When attendee registers, ticket would be reserved and
removed from the available pool. If confirmation page isn’t visited within 12 hours
after registration, the reservation will expire, reserved ticket returns to available
pool and attendee is marked with “Cancelled” or “Timeout” status.

Any thoughts? Concerns? Please share those and your opinion about wheter we should
ask confirmation when registering for a free ticket or not before 2020-08-20.

 [#online-events](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/online-events/), [#confirmation](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/confirmation/),
[#registration](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/registration/), [#tickets](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/tickets/)

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