Ye Olde Inn

[quote="Goblin-King"]Why would the username ever be an issue? :S[/quote]

Because usernames are re-used by people, including spammers. Such as the one I wanted to use today, "JJJ". Apparently it is on the spammer list that this site links to. Although the reference check to that list does not go for exact matches, which is a real flaw.

Would have been nice to get a better error message than merely "One or more of the fields entered was marked as spam." That gives no clue as to what the actual problem is, nor how to remedy it. It is fortunate that search engines returned this thread and the link to stopforumspam.com, because otherwise I would never have worked out why I could not register, and I would certainly have written off this site.

[quote="Goblin-King"]Why would the username ever be an issue? :S[/quote]
When it's poopgrinder :p

Why would the username ever be an issue? :S

Good, welcome! You will notice that this forum is [i]all but[/i] quiet ;)

It didn't tell me, I just changed stuff until it worked.
Registered as Schmidt1971

[quote="Andy P"]I have now managed to register (with a different username), thank-you.

It's just a shame it couldn't tell me the reason straight up, instead of having to come and ask. But I'm in now, so I guess the end justifies the means...[/quote]
I find that strange as it seems to have been the username. Schmidt signed up a while back but it wouldn't accept his username and it told him that the username was the issue.

I have now managed to register (with a different username), thank-you.

It's just a shame it couldn't tell me the reason straight up, instead of having to come and ask. But I'm in now, so I guess the end justifies the means...

Well, I'd like to see how this goes on.
As an awesome wise man and logical alpha-male once said, "Let's keep this one!"

And if you feel really this negative you can always join to Old Scratch |_P

Bitterman,

The IP address you used to enter your post above does not show up on the blacklist at stopforumspam.com, but if you tried signing up with the username [b]bitterman[/b], then that's the reason you couldn't get through. Bitterman is on the blacklist at stopforumspam.com.

At this point you have three options:
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[*]Try signing up with a different username, then PM me once you've logged in and I can change your username to Bitterman if you really want to use it.
[*]Email me at drathe{at-sign}drathe{dot}com with the email address you want to sign up with and send me the username you want. I will create an account for you and forward a temporary password to that email.
[*]Don't sign up at all should your HeroQuest mood have passed.[/list]

[quote="Bitterman"](I thought the forum looked quite quiet. I guess now I know why. If I wasn't very heavily in a HeroQuest mood right now I'd just not bother jumping through stupid hoops that benefit no-one and only put off interested players).[/quote]
I understand that you may be frustrated by the anti-spam system preventing you from registering, however, these "stupid hoops that benefit no-one" actually benefit all of us here. Every second of every minute of every day there is at least one spambot attempting to register on this forum. On occasion one or two still manages to get through.