New applicants

andy

The 'new applicant' system is currently being deluged by spammers <span style="font-size: 10pt; ">who give the reason for joining as:</span><div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px; "><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i>{I want to {see new threads|follow the discussion|be part here|see new additions|access all parts|contibute|say something|reply to a thread|reply to a user|message a user|contact a user|read everything}.</i></span></div></blockquote><div style="font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; "><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">and something about Luis Vuitton or Moncler. So if you are a real person and want to sign up for the site, we might miss you in the deluge, please bear with us.</span></div></div>

conformable_kate

what a pain for you - I see a couple of them have got through ... 

andy

right. no new applicants for a bit - there are too many spammers. if you want to join the site, message the @stroudgreen twitter account to have your account authorised.

andy

OK. Here's a new thing. CURRENT members can invite NEW members.<div><br></div><div>If you're logged in, click your name in the top bar. On the left hand side, there's a box. Click "My invitations". If you want to invite a friend to join, enter their email address. Then they can sign up. It should work. </div><div><br></div><div>Let's see how that works.</div>

Idoru

I have (hopefully) just invited someone.<br>

andy

RIGHT. I have finally implemented a CAPTCHA for new members. So the site is open to new registrations again!