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Posting an advertisement, including in your signature, is grounds for an immediate ban. We will not enter discussions or appeals over the banning of spammers. Just don't do it, OK?

Finally, The Alliance is a small organisation and we run these forums on a best efforts basis. As with most forums of this type, we wage an ongoing battle with comment spammers who seek to use the forum as their personal free advertising space. Consequently, applications for membership are manually vetted. Besides the various hoops you go through when you sign up, I'm also vetting you manually, by IP, by email address, etc. against lists of known spammers. If you *are* a spammer, you're not getting in so you might as well give up now.

If you're not a spammer, I apologize for the time it might take for your registration to go through. As I said, we're a small organisation and we have to do this stuff manually. Pressure of work, staff absences, etc. may mean it can sometimes take a couple of days, though we do strive to get it done as quickly as possible.

Sometimes, false positives can get caught along with the spammers. If you're a legitimate forum user and you feel you've been wrongly excluded, shoot me an email and I'll try and sort it out. forum at m-alliance etc. etc. (see our website address for the domain) should reach me. There are certain things you can do to try and minimize the likelihood that you'll be caught as a false positive. Read the section on Joining the Forums in the Users Guide to the Alliance Forums, as referenced above.

Finally, we realize that this is all a bit of a pain in the bum, so we apologize but it is necessary to keep the forums functioning as a place people will want to come to, rather than a spamhole filled with interminable ads for viagra, cialis, off-shore pharmacies, penis enlargement products and porn sites.

If you're a Chinese/Russian spammer trying to get in, we've got every sympathy for your financial plight and we understand that you need to make a living. However, we'd suggest farming for gold in World of Warcraft over spamming. You'll be much less widely loathed and you wouldn't be giving your countrymen such a bad name.

If you've read this far, I'm extremely impressed. Go get yourself a cookie. Personally, I never read these things myself, but it's all got to be in here, so that when I do come to ban you, you can't say you weren't warned.

Welcome to the Alliance Forums. Enjoy your stay with us and I hope you find what you were looking for.

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