For various reasons ... mainly to protect ourselves from spamming ... we propose to prune the Membership List regularly.
This will clear out the masses of people who sign up, but never complete their registration ... and so create an inactive account.
But it will also remove those who have completely signed up, but never bothered to post.
This will be run fairly frequently.
The rules will be that ... having signed up, everyone is allowed SEVEN DAYS to complete the Registration process ... by activating their account ... and then making at least one Post ... if nowhere else, then to at least say "Hello" in the "Welcome" Forum.
There is absolutely no point in signing up unless one is prepared to make Posts into Topics.
As a Guest, anything 'public' on this entire Board can be read as much as necessary.
(As we say in the Terms & Conditions) All Mods & Admins can reject Private Messages from those who have not made sufficient Topic Posts. (This rule is to stop the 'quick fixers' from getting themselves into trouble by going for a 'quick fix' without bothering to understand what they are actually doing).
If you can't even say "Hello", then there is absolutely no point in signing up ... is the way we look at it ... and this new mechanism will (we hope) limit the possibility of being auto-spammed with porn, or 'whatever'. If we still get spammed, we may have to reduce the time limit and/or take other defensive measures.
Under no circumstances whatsoever would we ever do anything to preclude 'the genuine article' from this Board. However, as our 'fame' spreads, we fully understand that we will be targeted by organisations who are just out to have some fun, and those who are not so funny.