Bitcoin Forum

The combination of 5 posts and 4 hours of time spent browsing is to weed out spambots and trolls.

If you don't like it, the rest of us (jr., full, sr., hero, mods) don't care.

We all like clean forums, don't we?

Yeah, but the 4 hoour limit seems to be too high!

Sounds fair to me!

I agree

I would just add that someone having read the forums for dozen of hours (like me) should be allowed to write in any forum. I suddenly need to reply to a thread and can't even though I have followed this forum for more than a year.

Logical -_-

The consequence - I like many of these low level posts to get jr. account are keept in newbie section

My only issue with the current system is that I spend most of my time lurking on various forums, subreddits, hackernews, etc. I've been following several threads here, mostly ASICMINER and Friedcat, but also auctions and other stuff. Today I came across something I wanted to add to in a meaningful way, realized I didn't have an account, then had to go through the process.

It seems OK though - I just need to pick up a plugin for chrome that autorefreshes the page for 5 hours...

it would be  helpful if there is some form of more visible notification for newbees. I have also followed this forum for more than a month only to realise now that I have to have 5 posts and 4 hours.

Any PM or banner for newbees?

I can only second this. I have been following the forum but only recently joined.
I too do like clean forums but now I will need to virtually spam the forum:
instead of replying to an existing thread with meaningful content now my 2cents will be separate in newbie section.
hmm
I'll get over it i guess :)

This seems logical. I have seen many forums ruined by the bots. So, lets wait little bit...

Seems fine by me, just need to make 5 decent comments now.

RichG you registered january 23 of 2013 and looks like you've been spamming messages. Your post count makes you no better. And your still more of a noob then me. Been around Bitcoin since 2010 and own 300 BTC what about you?

Ok mercy

I dont think this 5 posts 4 hour rule is any good its a pain in the ass and spammers/scammers are still going to make accounts.

The 4 hours, especially, makes it even more of a pain in the a** for scammers.  Most scammers are going to be too lazy to go through the process of setting up an account, making 5 posts, and reading the forum for 4 hours.

You also overlook the point that the 5 posts / 4 hours rule also helps with the purpose of making new uses familiar with the forums.  This system cuts down on duplicate messages, since the new user has been able to read more posts on the forum.

As you said, scammers are still going to make accounts, but they won't be able to post on them.

I still dont like it.

The problem is the forum doesnt want any spammers or New Age wotanist.

I'm with everyone else, I don't like it because of the situation I'm in at the moment where I have to wait to ask an important question to TAT about my securities.

I like clean forums.  ;D

Completely agreed.

Id prefer to do away with Bitcoin jail

I didn't like it either.  I, too, had been popping in and out over the last couple of years, but didn't feel I had anything really to contribute, so I didn't.  Then came the time that I REALLY wanted in on a conversation... so I ran into newbie jail, too.  Hated it.  Toughed it out.  You can do it too.  It sucks.  Wait until you see the various things available only to people with a certain longevity.  Just today, someone giving away licenses to MS product, but only to people who registered before I did.

I call it my lurker tax, or lurker penalty.  As a long-term lurker I was really a taker for a couple of years before giving back, however modestly.  Welcome to the boat.

Keep reading - you'll have your 4 hours soon enough.

I don't like it, but I understand why we have it.

Even as a newbie, I like it. Hell, it could be 50 posts and 5 weeks. I think the quality of the content is a reason so many lurk and don't even need to post to ask questions.

Though, if the point is to prevent spambots, couldn't a bot get around this?

only 55 minutes for me and then i will be free!

With this 5th post I have to only wait an hour to post outside newbies, yay!

still got a long way to go

This is my 5^th post... but still 2 more hours to go...  ;D

Second post, 4 hours remaining! At least we are still able to lurk around.

I agree.

with the amount of posts and people here is no wonder why this rule is in place

it's more of a problem with the four hours' time.
You actually have to have the browser OPEN to the forum that long [so it appears].

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Has no one learned a damn thing about hackers, pirates and spammers online? Stupid setups like this will not "stop them" and I have not even gotten into how you treat everyone like those scum and waste our time. Its a DRM for Forums and I for one think its retarded.

Its keeping me from joining group buys.

i like clean forums

It's no big deal. Spam your 5 posts in the newbie area replying to hello posts.  Then go to hardware and read up on how to setup your own miner (researching the parts and costs) until you find out that the gpu cards are being obsoleted by ASIC miners that you're in too late to get in on. That'll take about 4 hours. (grin)

There are no viable good reasons for newbie jail..

Yes, accept it took me 2.5 hours to find this post so I could make a post to help me on my way to being able to answer somebody. i new their was limitation, but could find it.

I like this rules.

You're really not going to stop someone determined enough to screw up your forums with a stupid scheme like this.

With this system I have to write useless posts, like this one...

I agree

Yes it is a good idea

+1

I'm agreeing too.

If anything it creates a very poor culture in the newbiew forums that later gets imported into the rest of the forum after the post and hour limitation. Just look at all the spam answers people give just to pad their total.

long time lurker, first time poster...  I appreciate this system. A lot of people want to hit the ground running without rtfm, then post crap cause they don't know what is what they just strut.... wtf.
Been mining for a while, joined just to get in on the auction action.

It serves two-fold: weed out the spammers/BOTS, and also encourages discussion from new members. I like the system as it stands.

I understand the 4h rule. But why 5 posts? Everybody (also a bot) can post some random messages...