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Title: for those who still not inform ! Post by: Ryanpaul80 on September 17, 2018, 03:40:27 PM Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.
Note that this does not affect: - PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status. - "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status. But it does affect: - Voting in polls - Patroller jurisdiction - The "ignore newbie PMs" option. - "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie." - BBCode limits - Reduced-accuracy link filtering - Board restrictions Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership. One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future. With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you. :) |