Forum (not game) registrations now open

[Red Squirrel]

I have now open forum registrations back up.

There is a bit of live testing required but everything should be good.

The following changes were made:

- A custom captcha was added, so OCR spam bots that target popular and well known captchas such as the phpbb default, wont work without tweaking them

- Email validation has been turned back on, with a 1 hour period to activate. Failure to activate within 1 hour results in account deletation

- All new member posts now need to be validated by a moderator, and the moderator will manually disable post validation at their discretion.

- Inactive members are not visible in the member list. Lot of spammers just register for the sole purpose of putting a scam site in their profile. These will get deleted before anyone sees them.

I may also add a forum section for UOgateway as it will save me from setting up and managing another forum as I wont have to create one on the uogateway site.

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