Cirith, I'm glad you got the chance to thank King David personally. It took him all of 15 minutes to find your post way out here in the Entrance Hall. How'd he do that? I'm certainly impressed. BTW, I would have gladly copied your thank you in the Dungeon forum for King David and the others to see. They do a great service for this community and deserve all the praise and thanks we can send their way.

I'm sorry if our registration policy isn't to your liking. You shouldn't feel childish or falsely accused. That is not the intent. If the Ultima Online forums are as hectic as you say they are, then I'd hope you would understand our desire to avoid such a situation. I'm sure you are correct that our registration policy has turned away some people. Just take a look at the number of Junior Patrons with zero posts. However, I also wonder how many people would not even have bothered to register if our forums were not as friendly as they are.

You are, of course, free to make of this situation what you will. You can follow through with your intent to not post here anymore. That would be a loss for both of us. Or you can choose to play our silly game. You needn't spend hours a day here posting and wasting your time. Post what you want when you want. This is not a suck up to the moderators deal. Or a post count contest. Until such a time that you are able to post in the other forums, post what you will here in the Entrance Hall. There are a wide variety of topics and many of the regulars in those Hallowed forums do come here and interact with the new patrons as King David so kindly demonstated.

Enough preaching.

BTW Dramicus, my hand holding is on an as-needed basis only.

Ah, I nearly forgot...Welcome Cirith. Thanks again for taking the time to recognize the efforts of others. It isn't done enough in this world.