/!\ HOW TO REGISTER YOUR ACCOUNT /!\, PLEASE READ! Options

[Poetics]

Once you have finished registering for the board (there should be a link to that effect either in the upper-right or upper-left next to the board login), you will not have access to post to the boards. Fear not! Your registration has been queued up for the administrators (read: the Storytellers and Poetics) to approve.

Once we have approved your account, you are free to post! If you however note that your account hasn't been activated within a few days (registrations expire after 7 days), please PM one of the aforementioned individuals to gain access!

The reason we resorted to Admin-validation for new accounts is due to the proliferation of spam- and porn-bots that plagued the last boards; we just need to verify that you are not a spammer or a distributer or unsolicited porn, and we'll make sure the boards continue to run smoothly!

[Poetics]

Alright, new information!

Our standard CAPTCHA system has been cracked by spammers (not an uncommon occurrence for webforums), and so I am trying to make it quite a bit more robust, which is an arduous process. Currently you must PM me after registering an account to be granted access. Just let me know who you are and I'll get you set up with the right permissions.

-- Christopher

Edit: Since nobody has been doing this I made the announcement even bigger.

[Poetics]

To give you an idea of why this is important, I currently have 537,976,064 IP addresses blocked from being able to register, along with all of gMail and about 10 other wildcard-matching email domains. And yet even with all this, I am still deleting more than two dozen fraudulent signups per week.

To give you an idea of how many IP addresses that is, there are only 4,294,967,296 available IPv4 addresses in the world. I have blocked fully 1/8th of the global internet from reaching us.

If you do not PM me, your registration will not be validated and you will not have access to the boards.

[Poetics]

To give you an idea how bad the Spam-bot registration issue is, to date I have denied the registration of over 1490 fraudulent accounts to the site.

That means more than 2 spam registration attempts per day since the site's inception on 2007-03-07.