In order to finally get validated, you need to either:

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* be a respected member of the Sonic community or such
* be known as a good researcher and have researched some really good stuff (prototypes / interviews / infos / unseen stuff / etc. etc.)
* prove that you have something valueable to us (prototypes / connections / names / rare stuff / etc.)
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Then, you need to convince members to validate you. You need 50% + 1 votes of members, who were active in the past 2 months. Then you get a full membership.

There will be some exceptions, as people decide, not machines (considering a human isn't a machine... =P)

Why all this? We need ultra-protection. We have some really underground stuff that should NEVER see the light of the day. Well, at least most of it. We don't need any board drama, because some random visitors will come and take over our actions.

PS. Try to make separate topics for each validation.