Is your password really long? I seem to remember there being a bug with changing super long passwords.

Links require 10 posts and images 50.

The high image requirement is due mostly to the threat of users who embed "images" that are actually referral links, spreading their referral cookies to everyone.


You can disable the display of signatures in your profile settings.

I like this theme. It's minimalistic.

(It was also heavily modified by Satoshi, so it would be nice to keep it for historical reasons.)

Due to a mass of trolling, only established posters are able to post in non-newbie sections. You are considered "established" if you have made one post and then waited 4 hours. This post must be substantial: at least several sentences.

If you have really good posts, you can post a request for preemptive whitelisting in the appropriate topic.

Also:
- Newbies cannot upload their own avatars.
- You must have made one post in order to send PMs.
- You need 10 posts to put a link in your signature.

Note that it may take up to 10 minutes for your PM or posting permissions to be granted. (The system automatically checks every 10 minutes and promotes people as appropriate.)

What a horrific mess... Merging many topics together is a terrible idea (especially into a topic that was not meant for it).

No discussion can happen in this topic any more. If you want to respond to something, quote it and start a new topic.

You need to put that data into the binary format before hashing it.

You now need only 4 hours of online time plus 5 posts to become established. 8 hours seemed a little hard to get -- it might take some people several days.

You were banned because you are a troll. Every single post of yours was complaining about the forum. You even offered to post junk posts for people.

And now you're banned on this account, too...

Restored. It must have looked "trollish" to whoever deleted it.

Let me know if there were any other false positives like this.

You can ignore it in your profile.

Some people might be interested in posts there, so I won't make this the default.

PM me.

I think it may take up to four hours for the board to update your member group. (Otherwise, maybe I have to do it manually with a cron job or something.)

I don't think it's unreasonable to ask newbies to lurk for 8 hours before posting. Trolls can easily bypass it, of course, which is why there is also a post limitation. Hopefully mods will notice their spam before it starts getting out of this section.

Already done. You are "established".

You've only spent 6 hours online.

Thanks to some code provided by Disposition, there is now a mix of post count and "time online" requirements. You must have spent 8 hours online and posted 5 posts. This should be easier to do.

I think we have enough for now. Thanks to all applicants and new moderators.

The 50 post limit will be reduced. Probably the "newbies" section will be removed once the moderation tools have been improved.

Email verification is useless. Anyone with access to a domain name can receive an unlimited number of verifications until that service is blocked, and then they can move on to another domain name.

IP blocking works alright if you spend a lot of time building proxy blocklists, but SMF doesn't have the tools to do it properly.

The other restrictions may be reduced or eliminated later, once things have calmed down.