Two fields set as required, but people are not being required to complete them

[creativepart]

In my Profile fields I have two additional fields -- one is a spambot prevention profile field and the other a location profile field. I have them both set to Required > yes on registration & profile updating.

Yet, people are registering without filling those two field out -- leaving them blank.

What could be the cause of this?

Here's a screen capture of the setup for the Location field:

[Trevor Hannant]

When you try and register yourself, are you able to skip that field?

[creativepart]

When you try and register yourself, are you able to skip that field?

I'll be... no I can't. I just tried it and was not able to skip either of those fields. Also, I tried just putting in a space and that didn't work either.

So, how did people join in the last day with both of those fields showing up blank? Here are some registrations from yesterday with the two fields shown -- you can see 3 or 4 with blank fields.

[Lynne]

Did they register via facebook maybe?

[creativepart]

No, we do not have that activated (and it's VB 3.8.7).

[Lynne]

You allow users to edit the fields. Could they have removed them after registering? Do you have any modifications on your site? Try disabling them for a couple of days and see if this still happens.

[creativepart]

Perhaps they could have removed them afterward, however, since they are required at registration and profile editing it seems they'd be stopped when they tried to edit them out of their profile. Wouldn't they???

Yes, I have mods installed, but I also have 8 million page views a month and 1 million unique users. There is no way I could remove what are now essential parts of the website.

[Lynne]

Well, I have not been able to not fill in a required field during login on a totally default site. So, I'm not sure how these users did this and my only guess is they somehow edited them afterwards or a modification allows them to somehow get past that requirement.