Quote from: mrtaz on January 17, 2014, 06:52:08 PM

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Quote from: deadcat on January 17, 2014, 03:53:47 PM

good question. Im wandering that myself. Guess this is a test to see if i can PM after sending a reply

I have been registered to hundreds of forums and have never experienced anything like this.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Are there any verterans of this board around that can remember why they created this bizarre system? Was there a spam flood or some hostile takeover attempt? I'm just curious why the hoops are necessary.

Yeah, I'm sure there was a ton of spam. A forum about what was at one point basically a penny stock loved by relatively crazy political thinkers, that was also loved by people who program and do various other obtuse computer activities? Yeah, that sounds like the biggest bullseye imaginable.