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