>>6722929It's probably because they have their database set up in a retarded way where the story site and the main forum use the same database, and therefore to get access to one or the other, you need an account that does both. And the greenlighting is because, well, just imagine the amount of trolling that such a site must attract. That or they think that the content will get them v& in their home country and want to have a fighting chance of preventing the feds from gaining access (...as if they don't already know a hundred different backdoors into phpBB already).
Annoyingly, I'd found a generic username that someone had shared to give anyone who wanted it access to the stories without having to go through that process (I think I applied once and got turned down with zero reason given, maybe because I was using my webmail account, even though it's one I've had for >15 years - because like fuck am I giving them anything with my real name on it?!), and it worked nicely for a good couple of years, but some asshole must have abused it because it got banned a few months back.
If anyone has a valid account they'd like to share, I figure my next visit there will be a slow trawl through the entire archive picking out the stories I like the look of and saving them to an encrypted archive. Or maybe just blindly ripping everything off there, at a leisurely pace so it doesn't set off flood alarms. To then be uploaded in the clear to pastebin or the /lit/ section of gurochan or somewhere like that, because fuck their stupid gated-community webpage bullshit.