I don't know what to tell you, the guy who talked me into it said it took a couple weeks for him to get an account. He'a a pretty well known blogger himself but unlike myself was pretty limited in his scope of where he blogged at unless he blogged different sites under different names. I always use the same avatar. I signed up in the evening one night and was approved by the time I woke up the next day. I have a long history of being on one forum for years, my thought is some of those people were probably blogging here way before me, maybe worked behind the scenes. Maybe familiar with me and had no problems with me in that regard. All I have ever seen is people complain about how long it took to get approved and wondered why I had no problem in that way, that's the only thing that would really make a difference between them and me.