Registration controls have been tightened back up as a result of the influx of bots/spam threads. We're not seeing enough new posters/legit traffic to warrant the inconvenience that these cause both board users and moderators.
We'll consider loosening things back up for the next tour.
In the meantime, if you know somebody is wanting to register and can vouch for them, hit one of us with a PM giving us the username and email address of the newly registered user.
Bot Invasion
Bot Invasion
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