Without wishing to moan, whine or complain, I feel the need to moan, whine and complain about the time taken between registration and validation by the forum team. How the devil are new players supposed to ask for help in a sensible way if it takes up to two weeks for an account to be validated?
It can't be doing the server any good in terms of consistent throughput of new faces, and the advancement of RP, if new players can't fully utilise the forums before they get bored and sod off to play Eve.