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These restrictions suck ass. I would have needed to post an urgent message to vircurex thread about deposits not appearing. Ok lets wait for 4 hours till I get to discuss about this in proper thread... There seems to be in the rules that I need to type several sentences to qualify as as "not bot". So lets edit and add some more sentences to make sure to meet the requirements. Garbage...

I agree. I paid for something and can't PM the person that I paid bitcoins to.
Also, the registration is broken. The captcha remains the same even if you click refresh image. I had to use the audio version.

I now see that the post needs to be substantial, so I'm gonna write the same sentance 20 times. Like what are we supposed to write?
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same here. So I am just posting lame comments wherever I can to prove I am not a bot.

just need patient being a newbie

I would advise against posting lame comments because that will not invite rep and trust with it. You should probably stick to helpful comments that serve a purpose :)

I would ban all of you

Hello, I would like to post my first message.

it's funny

Agreed.

Agree with your post :)

Is there a way to post in my mining pools thread?

You may think that they suck ass, but in reality they are for your own good. While in some cases they may be harmful they are usually help people I think that was the logic used

This seems rather silly to me.  As if a bot couldn't be programmed to post a "substantial" reply and wait 4 hours.

This is a good example of what Bruce Schneier calls "security theater".  People equate inconvenience with security, so they feel safer if you jerk them around a bit.

I hope "sarcasm" doesn't conflict with "substance" in the content of this reply.

The bot would need to be a bit smarter than that.

There is some vague reference to "substantial" posts, and there also appears to be
an initial "minimum 6 minute delay" between posts as well. I am not sure if there
are other restrictions, but it seems you just have to stumble into them to find them.

Yes, I guess I am trying to inflate my post count a bit.

+2

I had to deal with this stuff too. It wasn't bad at all.

+3
though I thank you for the opportunity to post a sensible comment without the need to engage brain or trawl threads I don't want to read for something to comment on.

agreed, post inflation isn't too hard. |OK patience time now .. 360 seconds .. OMG .. Guess the give-away thread will be dead before I get my addy on it ..... :/

Seems like I always have 360 seconds before I can post...  :'(

YOLO

Ugh, I understand the reasoning behind this whole newbie limitation thing, but I wish
 there was a way to circumvent it. Like hop on IRC and have a quick conversation with
 one of our members about BTC. If your understanding is good (obviously you aren't
 a bot at this point, unless you can create a bot to pass the turing test; if so, why are
 you here?) then they're able to vet you. Otherwise you have to go through this process.

Anyway, I've been around BTC since before the $30 bubble, and recently invested ~1.5
btc in cognitive that I had self-mined. Bought @ .16/.22, sold some @ .6, sold some at .8
and just recently will be receiving my first bought btc. I'm moderately active on reddit,
place my shares on btct, and have been lurking here since my initial investment. Mostly
threads for securities I own / am interested in.

A bit conflicted here. I am tempted to just complain about this process for a few sentences hoping to get unlocked, but something tells me that wont work.

I totally understand the reasoning behind it. The problem is, all of the pools or other entities who use bitcointalk.org as their forum provider. I am in a small upcoming pool and really need to communicate with the owner / other pool members.

So it seems like a lot of us need to post ELSEWHERE but must come to the main bitcointalk forum and complete this process... Not blaming bitcointalk... I've just never seen anything like the forums for all the pools just being a single thread, here. That's the problem, not this process. Who wants all of the discussion for a particular pool in one thread?

Ok, enough complaining, i'll go be a good soldier and contribute something meaningful now :)