I know many people who have tried to sign up but cant? This may be the root of some of the problems of people playing not being present on the forums?

Even I have tried to sign up for a new account with other email addresses to try and help people but it wont.

L8rs

Nad

This may be related to ongoing issues with people that had previously had accounts on here and been banned for various infractions, and steps taken to prevent the board being spammed worse than it is already.

Best bet would be to ask Beaker or one of the other Mods about this, (nicely).

if you are trying to sign up with a web based e-mail address it wont let you gmail works though
things like hotmail and yahoo dont
try a different email (non web based)