There are various ‘systems’ in place to help protect the forum against a variety of nefarious registrations and activities. I won’t discuss them on the open forum because that helps those so inclined to circumvent them; however, if you’d like to know what they are, I’m happy to chat over PM
With that said, it also isn’t new for people to join, only to ask a question, or try to sell something and to never be heard from again. Little we can do to stop the first part but the later, to do with sales, is the reason I have a time restriction on sales posts and they all need to be approved.
