aurora1979 wrote on Dec 1
st, 2011 at 4:44am:

isnt that a bit paranoid..... considering the only way you can (i got) invited to this forum was by sending strake a pm on the other forum....
If he knew who I was then why doesnt he/ you know who I am now.
Whats the point in having an indirect way to get to these forums if its easy to bypass the "security".
Why not just let anyone set up a username and password. Im assuming its still an invite only forum.
Also, I had a very public argument with tarrant on the forums, and got 5 infractions for 1 post from him.... then another infraction for complaining

Surely SOMEONE must remember me....
I know Im pretty insignificant but....... mummy....??
The Vault was never invite-only, it's just that Turbine won't let us talk about the Vault directly, or link to it, or link to a Google search for it. So we had to play the whole "PM Strakeln for details" to let people know it existed.
About a year or more back, we changed to email verification for registration. It lets in a lot more spammers, but it was pretty annoying for people to have to register then wait for me to get home and approve it. No one wants to wait <some amount of time> for access. So now, as you suggest, anyone can set up a username and password.