Oh, and to respond to your registration questions: people who ARE spammers, ALSO claim not to be, so the fact that you claim not to be a spammer tells me nothing.

Until you post, the primary thing that distinguishes spammers from non-spammers is anonymous registration. Spammers NEVER provide real addresses and phone numbers*. Since your registration was anonymous, you automatically got placed in the least privileged member category.

If you post a few times before fall 2014, your membership will auto-upgrade after 12 months. I hope to be posting some info for those who'd like more privileged access sooner, within the next month or so. But this will be an off-season-only opportunity, since I can't even keep up with fully valid registrations in-season.

* Ironically, I've now got a spammer crew, posting 10 - 15 new registrations each week, who ARE including real names and addresses. I'm amazed they are willing to go so far, but highly frustrated because they are difficult to weed out.