Little Green Footballs: A great, closed society

Why is the Register to the website Little Green Footballs always closed?

I have been trying to register there off and on for several months, so that I can participate in the comments sections there. Every time I have tried, I see the Register is closed, preventing new people (like myself) from registering so that we can comment.

I am going to keep a log for each day I try and see that their Register is closed:

August 1 2007: Register closed.

August 2 2007: Register closed.

August 3 2007: Register closed.

August 4 2007: Register closed.

August 5 2007: Register closed.

August 6 2007: Could not open the site at all (tried several times).

August 7 2007: Register closed.

Update: I don’t know how Little Green Footballs works, nor the reasoning behind why the Register is virtually always closed (I’m assuming that the owner, Charles Johnson, feels it’s the only way to manage what must be new seekers of registration too numerous to otherwise handle), but apparently there was a small window of time yesterday (August 3) when the Register was open. Great. The only way, it seems, that I will ever be able to register is to click on LGF every damn hour of every damn day, hoping for that window of time.

Second Update: Another brief window opened on August 4. The problem with these brief windows is that they are not announced beforehand, and the only way a person could benefit from them is by checking LGF at least once every hour, if not more often. I notice that this brief window—itself a separate LGF article—generated 1782 comments.

My suggestion for sites like LGF: Stop worrying about trolls and troublemakers. Who cares if some posters slip in genocidal and blatantly racist comments, or spend a while mucking up the site with spam or whatnot? LGF has a clause of plausible deniability.

And, more pertinently, people like Charles Johnson, owner of LGF, should avail himself of his obviously gigantic pool of manpower: hundreds of members who obviously have time on their hands to assist in monitoring the comments site. Offer them payment for doing so. Why are Charles Johnson and Robert Spencer so fastidiously unimaginative and stingy? By being so, they are actually helping to prevent their sites from becoming arenas of masses of supporters, whose ever-growing numbers and largely beneficial comments and insights would handily outweigh the peripheral nuisances of the tiny minority of bad eggs who would slip through.