my friend has joined but he can't validate because the email won't come to him! when he try to resend the email it says he can't he is using hotmail and DD username is charxard if you do know how to solve problem please post thanks in advance!

He's waiting for an e-mail that will never come. o_o We don't do e-mail validations. To become validated, he must sign in and find the forum called Validation, which is visible only to validating members and staff. It's just below the Aloha forum. Then he just has to post there to prove he's not a spam bot, and wait to be validated by an admin.

So that's your anti spam-bot system? Clever...

wow i am stupid :XD: thanks i make sure he sees this!

Yes. That is our super complex, sophisticated system! :XD: In the however many months since I've implemented it, not one spam bot has gotten through that I know of.

As much as I'd love to take the credit for this brilliant idea, I found it in a post somewhere, I think on the Invisionfree help forums. Thank you, random anonymous person who came up with that! :banana:

Missingno., don't worry. You're not the first one to wait for a nonexistent validation e-mail. I think I need to automatically send a welcoming PM to new members telling them about the validation. Of the approximately 275 members that have signed up since September 8, only about 5-10 have made it through our super sophisticated validation system and become members. :crazy: