Newbie restrictions

[CoinOp]

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.

Note that it may take up to 10 minutes for your PM or posting permissions to be granted.

fair enough.

[Bowcaster]

I'm not sure I understand the time limit. My counter says only 2 hours and 25 minutes, but I'm sure I've been logged on far longer than that.

[Jebus]

It's good that there are restrictions but if i have to post 5x to be released from the restrictions and i can only post here i'm going to have to make 5 posts here. I'll spread them out timewise. Hopefully nobody actually reads this thread. I apologize in advance if my upcoming 5 messages irritate anyone.

[budda]

really a nice idea.. It reduces a lot of spam

[rocks]

So although I'm a newbie, after reading on these forums for awhile I found a post I wanted to reply to.

Then found out I can't reply do to the restrictions. There has to be a better way.

My current need is to reply to a specific post, I do not have anything I want to do right now.

So I'm forced to create 5 empty posts (this is #1). Again there has to be a better way.

[AndrewK]

1 hour left...

[drewoflorton]

Yeah 4 hours online to get to the information I came for is a pain in the ass, but I can absolutely respect what they are trying to do. I just wish somebody with the right creativity will come along and figure out a better solution to the trolling problem. Hmm maybe I need to ponder harder on it myself...

[philipma1957]

Hi I  am new to bit coin.

  I am using Bit Minter client  and today is my first day of posting

[lucb1e]

Just saying: You're the only legal forum I know with this kind of restrictions. Short on mods much? Also I think it highly encourages very low quality posts here just to get the initial 5 posts and be granted full access.

[Le Happy Merchant]

Just saying: You're the only legal forum I know with this kind of restrictions. Short on mods much? Also I think it highly encourages very low quality posts here just to get the initial 5 posts and be granted full access.

you still need to lurk for 4 hours, and this whole website is very lightly and fairly moderated, it fits with the whole freedom thing.

[lucb1e]

I know, but that's what Firefox' autoreload add-on was made for. Doesn't cost me any effort.

[mrSprinkles]

I don't get it, I've logged 12+ hours and made 6 posts, yet I still can't post in the other sections.

[BitcoinJayk]

Well, at least the faucets have been working better here in mid-August. Anf these restrictions are a little confusing...

[UNOE]

I don't get it, I've logged 12+ hours and made 6 posts, yet I still can't post in the other sections.

^^This

Don't make since I have my 4 hours.  I have had my account for months.  And I have my post... I would have many more post then this.  I have some serious questions and in need of troubleshooting.  I need my account activated this is getting annoying.  I been stuck asking questions on irc and every there are to lazy to type anything to help a n00b.

[Moose]

Tbh this just makes people have to spam these threads in order to post.

[d4rkbreaker]

The total required login time is 4 hours, 4 long hours.... and many minutes aren't counted?? Someone should fix the total time logged in timer.

[BadBear]

The timer under your stats doesn't update continuously or it would put unnecessary strain on the server, but it is still being tracked.

[d4rkbreaker]

The timer under your stats doesn't update continuously or it would put unnecessary strain on the server, but it is still being tracked.

Updating is truly variable and I was curious whether if I had to constantly visit pages in order to make the time count, thanks for the reply though.

[TravisE]

My understanding is that the timer only increments if the time you spend on each page is within a certain range. For instance, I can't simply leave an inactive page open overnight and have it log several hours; but during active reading where I change pages every few minutes, it counts.

[AndrewK]

5 more minutes! Yeah, i have found that as a newb... it doesn't pay to read long winded posts or pages with lots of info as you will get substantially less than the time you actually spend on them. Just flip threw and skim pages every couple o' minutes if you wanna pump out your 4 hours.