Due to a flood of spammers and fake accounts, we are temporarily turning on manual account validation. This means that instead of new users automatically being validated, someone (an administrator) has to manually click a button to enable their account. It sucks, but we are currently getting around 50 fake/spam accounts for every real one.
"What does this mean for me?"
If you already have a Digital Press account, this will affect you very little.
If you have applied for a Digital Press forum account and have not been validated within a couple of days, you can e-mail me directly at xxxRemoveThis@RemoveThisToorobohara.com and I will validate your account.
Manually account approval is not perfect. I suspect a small amount of spammers will get through and I also suspect a small amount of real users will get deleted. If you see a spam thread, the best thing you can do for Digital Press is to click the button that says "Report this thread". That will e-mail the moderators and administrators which allows us to quickly nip it in the bud.
Thanks for your assistance and understanding. We are moving forward on the testing of the new version of VBulletin and hopefully we will have the new version (which has much better spam controls) up in the near future!