(24 May 2016, 11:54 am)MurdnunoC wrote 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?
Don't recall there being a email link, certainly never got any emails from them. Answered their security question and did the image verification thing and I think that was more or less it. After this I even filled in a some info into my profile saying my age, where I live (I put Co. Durham) and my favourite type of bus (Leyland Olympian/ECW). I stayed online for around 20 minutes the day I signed up and viewed a few of the local threads. I didn't come back online after that for two weeks which was this morning as I have been busy and viewing full sites for forums on mobiles is annoying, so I haven't had chance to get online. Seem as this is the second time this has happened, I don't see the point in continuing to bother with them if this is going to be how things go on.
To shame the forum in question...
http://dartslf.com/forum/
I was only really intrested in the Blackpool Transport and Catch22Bus threads as I appear in Blackpool a fair bit. Neither of them threads have much action in them.