Hi all,
I'm a long time lurker of the board and have been mining with an FPGA rig for the past couple years. For the 1st time today I had a reason to actually register. (There is an auction on the auction board I want to bid on / just pay the amount to "buy it now") I find however that I need to make a post in the Newbies forum in order to be able to send a message to anyone. To further complicate matters the guidelines I read indicate that this post must be
substantive. To me this is a tad unreasonable unless you want the newbies board littered with "Hi just posting to become a full member" type posts. Because what is there to post about which could be described as substantive if one is just posting to fulfill the requirement. I had to go with a meta-post questioning the reasoning behind the requirement but c'mon guys the main reason I'm glad to be 9 years out of college is to never have to write an essay again.
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Thanks,
Aaron