New members forum only for activated users

[banpei]

Over the past few years we had many new members introduce themselves before their accounts were activated. Unfortunately in the past few weeks we had an influx of spam accounts bypassing the spam detection. Some of these users posted (many) spam topics to the new members forum. Not only is this disturbing for our users but also stressful for the moderation team.

This meant that we had to stop our warm welcome and close the new members forum for users awaiting activation. For now if you are awaiting activation, send a PM to me or any of the moderators. Enabling shouldn't take longer than one or two days. Until we have enabled your account you simply have to wait.

This also means that if you don't send us a PM we will not enable your account. If an account has not been activated within 14 days it will be deleted, so this means you really have to send us a PM.