Perplexed

[tituman]

Hi guys, googling around and discovered this site by luck. After reading some threads, was immediately interested to sign up as a member. But my enthusiasm was dampened by frustrations during the sign-up process. I just could not get past the security check and fail to progress further.  After one more day of frustrations, I finally managed to sign up through Facebook. I am still perplexed why I was not able to sign up since yesterday. Can some moderator kindly explain to me of the failure? 

[Genie]

On 7/31/2018 at 11:38 PM, tituman said:

Hi guys, googling around and discovered this site by luck. After reading some threads, was immediately interested to sign up as a member. But my enthusiasm was dampened by frustrations during the sign-up process. I just could not get past the security check and fail to progress further.  After one more day of frustrations, I finally managed to sign up through Facebook. I am still perplexed why I was not able to sign up since yesterday. Can some moderator kindly explain to me of the failure? 

I've had this problem repeatedly as well. Can't seem to register an account via normal email as the security clearance fails. Getting an account on this forum is only possible if via Facebook, which is extremely frustrating. Given that this was raised last month in July and no moderator has bothered to look into it and give an explanation, I guess this problem will persist and possibly turn away potential members. 

I'm quite averse to Facebook due to real privacy concerns. I resorted to getting a FB account just to register on this forum. 

[tituman]

To date I still can't sign in direct through SGMerc. I have to sign in through Facebook still