There was a slight misconfiguration due to a past update that allow users to set their own user group access. For those of you that abused this misconfiguration to join a basic group, you have been banned for 1 month.

For those of you that tried to use this to join the VP Member group to obtain special access to other hidden forums have been banned for 2 months.

One such user tried other ways around this and has been banned for 3 months.

These bans are here for a reason. If you see an issue that needs to be looked at contact me directly. Don't attempt to use such issues to try to obtain further access into the forums. Doing so can and will get you PERM banned from these forums.

Also, as per Monday 1/11/2010 We will be looking into upgrading the forums to VB 4.0 Gold (the newer version of the forums) which also includes blogs & more! If we do this, the forums will be down for a large portion of the day. Just an advanced warning!