[Official] Banned after registration? Read this.

[SkullTraill]

Hello prospective WF member.

If you have registered and before you can take any actions, been banned automatically, here are some reasons that may be the case:

• You used an email with many special characters. Something like:
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • emails which contain:
    • multiple @s
    • quotation marks "
    • etc
• You used an email from a website that many spambots use:
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
• Your email address matched a smap database
• Your IP address matched a spam database

What you can do:

• Use a simple, clean email address from a well-known provider
  • gmail
  • yahoo
  • live
• Contact me via:
  • the contact form on the website
  • skull /at] wizardforums - com (skull@thiswebsite)

The reason for this, is because we have some anti-spambot tools that flag and sometimes ban/prevent registration if certain conditions are met. The most common way to bypass this, is adding special characters such as periods and pluses (. +) in the email. For this reason, even if the registration was successful, if I notice a user with many special characters in the username, I usually instantly ban the user.