Newbie restrictions

[mysticopias]

Yeah, I hear you man. I only wanted to post 1 message to my team members (perhaps the first of many?) and here I find myself splashing around in the paddle pool.

My inner geek is most disappointed.

[spooge]

Lame restrictions. Long-time-reader first-time-caller who only registered to post on a thread to which I can finally contribute something meaningful. Not to take anything away from the need to enforce such restrictions.

[BTC_Junkie]

Thanks for the info, was trying to figure out how to get out of purgatory haha.

[Microstorm]

Hope this will reduce spamming...

[Siem0]

Awesome, I look forward to contributing

[Wolle]

Thosr rules lead to a mass of Spam in this Topic =)

[lathomas64]

If you've already been here for 4 or more hours should it be automatic after the 5th post? I think I should have access but something may have gone wrong.

[themrhk]

hello community,

ive been mining for about a week now and i spent over 1 month getting to know all about bitcoin and mining. I just bought a ATI 5830 and would like to get some suggestion from experts, who have been mining from the start of bitcoin on, how i could improve my effectiveness. Currently im mining in DeepBit, Slushs Pool and BTC Guild. Im not a spammer so please promote me to a senior member or anything thats better than newbie

thanks a lot in advance

[topynate]

This supports a theory I have that the behaviour of an online community is heavily influenced by the software it runs. So for example in a blog that runs WordPress with regular comments, everyone takes their lead from the blogger: if he's thoughtful and polite, so are they, if not, not. (The subject matter has an effect, but less than you might expect.) If he happens to be running Disqus comments, the blogger has less influence, because people lek for 'likes'. Metafilter (my favourite community site) uses a layout and moderation system that you won't find anywhere else, so the community is likewise unique. And 'forums', usually running either SMF or phpBB, all resemble each other in that

• Lots of people talk smack
• Even more people act very defensively
• Many don't read more than three or four comments in the thread before they reply. I certainly haven't read all the comments in this one. A side effect is that there are more outright dumb comments, although intelligent ones may or may not exist alongside them.
• Smileys everywhere
• Mods make a lot of explicit rules and 'sticky' them – stickying itself being particular to this sort of forum.
  
  • These rules become more arbitrary over time.
• Your reputation is very visible and significant, thanks to the per-post sidebar on the left that says how many posts you've made, and even what 'title' you have.

Instituting a rule that people without established rep have to post in a forum that no-one, including the posters, reads, in order to prevent 'spam' – the lurk requirement may reduce spam, but the posting requirement won't – is a perfect example of this. Ironically when I attempted to post to another thread fifteen minutes ago it was in order to point out that Mark Karpeles' motto of "php can do ANYTHING!" should probably have tipped more people off that MtGox wasn't the most secure of sites. The way you talk, the way you code, the software you choose to run, all both say something about you and affect your actions and nature.

[zargon]

man 50 posts would take forever unless you spam and troll

[NF6X]

It seems to me that this restriction encourages new forum members to begin their stay here by making a minimum of five pretty useless posts. Like this one...

Still, the 5 posts + 4 hour rule doesn't seem terribly onerous to me, and if it cuts out most of the spam with less administrative overhead than other methods such as moderating new users, then I don't have a problem with it.

[lilika]

Hi there!

I'm the newest newbie around   

[RevolutionMaster]

Due to a mass of trolling, only established posters are able to post in non-newbie sections. You are considered "established" if you have spent 4 hours online and have made 5 posts.

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

Also:
- You must have made one post in order to send PMs.
- You need 10 posts to put a link in your signature.
- You need 50 posts to put an image in your signature.

I meet these requirements, but I'm still not able to post outside of Newbies...

EDIT: Posting here seems to have instantly resolved it. How odd.

[timsmith]

What a super idea :| ... (now to invent another 4 replies along a similar vein...)

[unsub10950]

There seem to be a lot of rules for a libertarian/anarchist sort of forum.
I guess that could be a result of the type of people who it would attract?
It seems like the kind of rule that came about to stop a specific type of abuse.
 

[tlan]

So do we need more than 5 posts?  Cause I've already posted 5, and my account is still prohibited from posting in other parts of forum.

[showtime]

I guess these restrictions make sense.

[Karen Palen]

There seem to be a lot of rules for a libertarian/anarchist sort of forum.
I guess that could be a result of the type of people who it would attract?
It seems like the kind of rule that came about to stop a specific type of abuse.
 

"Libertarian chant: "everyone is equal, but SOME are more equal than others" - now WHERE did I see that before? ROTFLMAO!!!!

[gangstarasp]

this newbie crap is really starting to piss me off... Seriously, 50 posts to get a picture in sig but no gareuntee of getting out of this shit part of the forums?

Somone re-do the damn heiarchy

[NoodlesJefferson]

thanks... sux spamers gotta ruin it for the newbies.