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.. to be able to post on the forum. Really. I have been browsing this "newbies" section for 2 hours now and can't stop laughing and wondering. Complete morons.

A lot of it is because there is nothing to talk about in this section....we are doing anything we can to get out.

There is always clever things to discuss. But this here is full of noise. I hope it doesn't become like that in all the forum, although I think it's inevitable.

I don't know how to move up in ranking, and rather than sounding like an idiot, I keep my mouth shut.

So I guess I'll never move up in ranking.

Thats why it's a newbie section, theres so much irony ITT

Of course there's going to be alot of noise in this section. Everyone needs to meet their 5 post limit so they can get out. I've been a long time lurker and would have signed up long ago if I knew I had to post 5 times here.

5? hm. thought it was 50.

that diamond guy has been labled a scammer  :o   look at that profile ..good lord...

5 + 4 hours online.

RAISE THE DIFFICULTY! Or the twits will keep trying to make bitcoin into fiat.

just read the sticky. that is a much better requirement than the previous "50 post". there are members that have been on this forum for months that have less than 50 posts.

I like the fact that I'm an American male with a fat belly and bald head.

no, we should just have a post randomly selected every 10 minutes for each post to be promoted out of the newbie section

I'll start a new blockchain, we'll call it bitcoincoins

omg that was HILARIOUS the diamond guy and his avatar, had scam all over it, then already a scammer in the name i literally "lol"d

Anyways, yeah lets raise the limit to 40 hours and 1000 posts and make this forum more full of trolls than zul aman on patch day

and you expect to have any serious forum users if you need anything more than 20 posts to get out?

I respectfully disagree.

Please, I have been checking up on this subforum for a few hours now just looking for anything vaguely interesting to respond to... as you can see only (now 5) posts have been achieved.

I hope there is an easier way to get our restrictions lifted, I really would like to go discuss economics, trading, ect ect.
MODS HEAR MY CRY!!  ;)

to get the restriction lifted just browse all the other forums and do your research. I have learned alot by just browsing. and you can easily get your posts up to 5 just by adding your 2c to some of the posts in here.

Its a difficult restriction to make. Some people are content posting moronically every 5 seconds, whereas some are only comfortable responding to actual intelligent discussion every now and then. Which of the two would you rather have access to the rest of the forum?

This.

For an open currency, this is a very closed community.

This is useless. I'm around bitcoins for few days, studying few hours a day and trying to understand is as much as possible. But yesterday was the first time I needed to ask something in the forum, registered and can't find a "reply" link anywhere. After a while I found I need to meet these 5posts and 4 hours to be able to post anywhere. So I'm here for now, waiting to be four hours online.
I think there are many other posibilities to avoid spammers. If you just raise the limit of posts needed to post anywhere, only more worthless posts will be in this section.

Five posts is hardly an insurmountable obstacle. Anyone willing to take the time to express themselves in five posts over four hours is welcome. Meanwhile, anyone unwilling to take the time to express themselves in five posts over four hours... well the logical assumption is that they don't want to be part of the community in the first place. As someone who has been reading the forums and learning for a couple of weeks now, I personally prefer this to endless melodramatic/doom and gloom/QQing/troll threads.

Hopefully with this limitation instituted my eyes will get a lot less exercise from all the rolling they had been doing.

P.S. There's 20% of my initiation right there. ;D

Does the 100 limit also applies to you?  Or do you registered an extra account for this sort of offending spam? In this case an Mod should care of you(r) other account(s) too  :P

My sole reason to register was the fact that i thougt i dould contribute some performance numbers for FPGA mining but ... i am not allowed to post.
What should i post about? Especially in this board, as it would be unfriendly to the other members. Posting in the wrong section is some sort of spam i think but thats newbies supposed to do. Or will after one did the 50 Post or whatever it is check for the quality of the postings? I have doubts about that.

I think it would be more clever to ad an spammer button and if the  rate goes over a decent limit the user will have a bann for some time/ forever ...

Sorry, I didn't make that post very clear. I wasn't addressing the 5 posts currently needed. I think thats a fair requirement. I was addressing the proposed 100 post count suggested by akiyama.

Aaaah, feeding the troll. That's where I got confused, sorry about that!

akiyama seems to be amused by simple things, is all. Leave him to his fun and don't take him seriously :P

When a fool keeps quiet, you can't tell whether he is foolish or smart.

This post itself makes me laugh, talk about useful + 1 post for me!

the "must have 5 posts" rule is actually forcing us to spam.. :)

You could always use the limit to post constructive criticisms, help people, or engage in interesting conversation. No one is forcing you to do what you're choosing to do ;)

Thats why it's a newbie section, theres so much irony ITT

The five post threshold is painful. Okay post #1 done! LOL!

For an open currency, this is a very closed community