I assumed my problems with the forum were an issue for a lot of other people. I first joined and posted to the forum a long time ago, maybe something like 10 years ago, but I posted in spells, and I probably went a year or two or more without logging in at one point. Then when I tried to log in again I couldn't, so I tried to rejoin but didn't immediately figure out what I needed to do to rejoin and gave up. Then after several more months I got more motivated and with more careful searching finally found a e-mail address for an admin and got back on the forum. If I remember correctly an admin told me there had been trouble with spammers or something like that that had necessitated some kind of clean-up of the membership list that was the reason my account had been deactivated. How obvious and easy are the steps someone has to take to join/rejoin the forum? Is that possibly part of the problem?