Newbie restrictions

[ooeygooeygold]

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 (new topics or replies).

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.)

It sucks being a newb!!

[spiralis]

So what prevents somebody from spamming a massive thread like this 5 times doing:

+1

and then just leaving their account logged in for 4 hours while they sleep or something?

considering i had my pointless posts from last night deleted - i'm guessing a mod does 

[blue42]

I hate having to do this, but I understand why.

[bittommie]

Tanks for the information

[m4ttanderson]

C'maaahn! 

[dimcasper]

Thanks for the info

[smlu]

Just want to say hi to everybody 

[Tribex1301]

Thanks for the explanations.

[LiteCoinGuy]

Good idea. Thanks also, makes much more sense.

[Tuch]

And now everybody is spamming here 

[Spendulus]

And now everybody is spamming here  :Djavascript:void(0);

It took a while but my one brain cell is starting to get it.

[elliotp]

So what prevents somebody from spamming a massive thread like this 5 times doing:

+1

and then just leaving their account logged in for 4 hours while they sleep or something?

considering i had my pointless posts from last night deleted - i'm guessing a mod does 

Haha me too.  Oops

[Leojane]

The restrictions are quite inconvenient for newbies, but, well.. reasonable.. make sense

so i'm making my way to 5 posts 

[WuLabsWuTecH]

The explanations here make sense, but it still doesn't tell me why I've been here for weeks and still don't have the 4 hours required...  I guarantee you that I have more than the 4 hours at this point reading threads and such.  Now time spent posting might be below that, but other than making spammy-ish posts, I really don't have that much to say that I can fill up 4 hours with posting...

[Avadij Addington]

Are we allowed to get all 5 of our posts from this thread?

may be

[Avadij Addington]

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 (new topics or replies).

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.)

now I understand

[Avadij Addington]

Yeah this makes a lot of sense as to why I couldn't send messages

you are right ))

[Abo Adamson]

So does it really help to avoid spam on this website?

[Aaron Abramson]

thanks for the information!

[Stoneysilence]

The explanations here make sense, but it still doesn't tell me why I've been here for weeks and still don't have the 4 hours required...  I guarantee you that I have more than the 4 hours at this point reading threads and such.  Now time spent posting might be below that, but other than making spammy-ish posts, I really don't have that much to say that I can fill up 4 hours with posting...

Look in the upper left corner.  It tells you how much time you have spent on the site.  I am up to 2 hours 11 minutes.