Cant post or view any threads, so I guess this is where to start

Says this:

"To access this forum your profile needs to be validated

Please have some patience.

If you haven't created a welcome thread yet, please do so here"

When clicking "here", I'm redirected to this:

"SparkyTerragon, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?

If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Steam linking your forum profile with your steam account is required in order to post within the Item Trading and reputation sections. See "sign in through steam" at the top right of the forums.
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I'm not sure what to do, even after reading around the forums