I have been in touch with one of the other forum moderators and got this reply.
Quote Originally Posted by Barney
There are grumblings on another forum that no new members are being admitted to this forum. It seems that several people have applied to become members but not been granted with no explanation. It is because of the other forum that I found this one in the first place. Could you please look into it. Thanks.
I'm not entirely surprised, Blue is the only one can approve them and he has always had a tendency to *disappear* for a month or so at times.
As moderators we have often found this quite frustrating - then he will breeze back in and be quite active behind scenes for a while.
He does have a young family are rather demanding at times!
We can't actually see the 'pending' list.
I'll mention it anyway in a way he will see it (by reporting the PM)