(24 May 2016, 10:24 am)Jimmi wrote Here's a great way to get new members on a forum, allow people to sign up and then never activate their accounts. Signed up to the forum in question several months ago and they never activated it and even deleted the account after so long, tried signing up again a fortnight ago and still no! I only spent around 20 minutes on the forum the day I signed up but I only intended to occasionally browse said forum as I was only intrested in certain parts of it, I ain't wanting to spend my entire bleeding life on it, do you only allow people with no lives to sign up? If you won't activate my account, why should I bother continuing to sign in if I can't really do anything! [emoji34]
Did you not have to activate the account via an email link? This is how some forums validate members.
While some forums do want regular contributors rather than lurkers, there's really nothing in what you've said which suggests this to be the case. I believe it is standard practise for some forum software to delete non-activated accounts after a certain period.
Out of interest, which forum are you trying to access?