Overview of Community Access Restriction Options
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This section allows community administrators to set various types of access restrictions or auto-approvals, curse filtering, SSL security, and government compliance settings. It is separated into 2 major toggle sections:
Access Restrictions: Basic
Toggling the switch to Basic will show the following settings:
Approvals Required
New Members Approval:
When this setting is ON, all the new members joining the community will first require the Moderator's approval to participate in the community.
Help Article on Community Approval Required
Email Based Access Control
This section allows setting restrictions on the users who join the community based on their email domain. The community administrator can auto-approve as well as blacklist the email domains.
Help Article on Email Based Access Control
Access Restrictions: Advanced
Toggling the switch to Advanced will show the following settings in addition to the Basic settings mentioned above:
IP Based Access Restriction
IP based access restriction allows the community administrator to control access to the community based on IP (Internet Protocol) address. Only those users who access the community from the defined IP addresses are allowed to view and participate in the community.
Help Article on IP based Access Restriction
Curse Filtering
Curse filtering feature allows the community admin to block certain abusive words from the community.
Help Article on Curse Filtering