Alternate history forums

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

I've just signed up on the Alternate History forums (www.alternatehistory.com) but I have 'insufficient privileges' to either start a thread or reply to an existing one.

Anyone else on here who uses that forum who could advise me how to gain 'sufficient privileges'

[Tuna-Fish]

Sadly the subject attracts certain kinds of crappy people, and the mods have had to take increasing measures to keep banned people out. I think the requirement is a working email address and waiting for a cooldown of some length to prevent banned people from just instantly making new accounts. If you can't post for a very long time, try contacting the mods? There should be a "contact us" link at the bottom right of most pages, that should go to the mods and be available?

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Thanks - I've sent a message to the mods.

[Garfunkel]

That must be a new thing, back when I registered - years ago - there was no such period. It's great fun to read stuff there, until you encounter something that you're personally knowledgeable about while the author isn't, and then it's just annoying 

But I agree with Tuna-Fish, that sort of thing does draw in a specific group of terrible posters for obvious reasons.