You're right, Patti, that we didn't get 2014 new members in 2014. What we actually got was 2014 submissions for membership - BUT, if we were lucky, maybe 14 of them were from actual people wanting to become members and the other 2000 were from bots. And considering that there's no way to know who the bots are and who the people are until after Midnite vets them, that's why registration is no longer open. As I'm sure you can imagine, tracking down 2000 submissions only to find out they're bots - and often malicious bots at that - is a pain and not something Midnite should have had to put herself through. So, unfortunately, unless or until SMF comes up with a more foolproof way to prevent bots from attempting to register, registration will remain closed.