I saw tickling city once. You can't view anything without joining, and it seems that gmail (or yahoo, I don't remember. I tried both) accounts are auto banned. Or they know of me in advance and banned me somehow. Either way, I tried registering with the email that wasn't banned (I dunno if it was gmail or yahoo anymore), and never received word from them. There also was a contact admin button that should have sent an email to them, but I never got a response from this either, so I wrote them off as not being worth the time or effort.
I have a distaste for TT due to personal reasons that.
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The reason for the restrictions on Tickling City prior to being a member was because when it was an open membership like this place, there was a period where there was literally over a hundred spam postings and flat out porn threads and posts. It had to be stopped somehow for it took the mods(myself included in this) two weeks to rid the site of the spam and porn and it was decided to place some restrictions on open joining. 99% of the porn and spam was coming from gmail, thus the flat out hold or barrier on that specific account or address.
As it is now, out of say every dozen who attempt registering and awaiting approval, 8 are from bogus accounts or from attempts to gain access to post porn which was obvious when checking out the initial profile of those attempting to get through. Not sure why this all was happening but when you logged into the site and saw over 50 pornographic posts a day, it had to be stopped somehow. It even got to the point where some who got in to the site, unrestricted and unmoderated, was posting child porn! That could not be allowed to happen even on a basis that..."hey we will catch it eventually and then remove the posts and ban the member who posted it.
Porn and child porn can not could not would not will not be tolerated even if it only appeared on the site for 5 minutes! It had to all be stopped immediately.
As for your other problems on not getting approved when you are obviously not a spammer or one who is attempting to slam the site with porn or posts containing viruses(another major problem back then), I have no clue as to why that has occurred. Some ISPs had to be banned as well when research found that they too were either bogus or of those who were just plain no good or had/have malicious intentions.
I am not the owner of TC. I am just a moderator and co administrator who along with the other mods and co admins, are just trying to keep out the bad seeds, riff raff, porn and other nastiness from gaining access.
I am sorry you had troubles and if you still wish to join, let me know.
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Let me know your screen name there and email address that is awaiting approval and I will keep a lookout for it.
There are other issues at hand and why the powers that be wish to keep things that way.
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