I'm not sure if this is a wide scale issue, an isolated incident, or WAI.
About a day after I set up my first account with DDO I registered here in the forums. However, after confirmation and logout relogin I did not receive permissions to post or reply. This lasted for about a month and a half.
I am now able to post (obviously) though I had rather more need to do so in August. In any case I'd like to thank whoever it was that fixed it. I'd like to note that if this is a known issue it might help to have someone that could be contacted by forum users as Turbine Support seems to apply to the game itself.