Newbie restrictions

[Plumbum27]

Makes sense to me. With other forums did things this way.

[Outsider7p]

It really frustrates me having to go through this after being a lurker for so long

[cdawson023]

Wish I had registered a while ago, but for some reason I didn't expect these kinds of rules to be in place. I've been lurking here for months.

This is my 5th post.

[whatnow]

Do you need both 5 postings and 4 hours online continuously?

4 hours of actively logged in total. I came back after 8 hours idle to this: "Total time logged in: 35 minutes." What trash.

When my computer goes to sleep after idle time the clock stops and I think the internet connection goes to idle. Which can be a good security feature.  If I am just idle on this site but still using the computer this clock keeps running.

[eightythree]

Do you need both 5 postings and 4 hours online continuously?

4 hours of actively logged in total. I came back after 8 hours idle to this: "Total time logged in: 35 minutes." What trash.

Not trash... Good idea! - stops people idling there way through!

[digititus]

Glad I found this

[drgonzo]

I am stupid noob

me too

Not ME!

Yes YOU!

[mrvegad]

hate being a newbie

[gnomicide]

When my computer goes to sleep after idle time the clock stops and I think the internet connection goes to idle. Which can be a good security feature.  If I am just idle on this site but still using the computer this clock keeps running.

Does this have to be the active tab? I left this open while doing other things for over an hour, came back to refresh, and the "total time logged in" didn't change at all.

[psychrepublic]

I have been lurking since 2011!

[Wed]

i don't like your newbie rules.
it means i have to spam till i can create topics with sense

[Kickingpanda]

Danke!

[ridgeback]

Wohoo! I'm a newbie! Have been reading the forum a while, now it is time to get in some action!

[Trident]

well at least I can post somewhere, somewhere where no one reads

[simtel12]

Lets go, newbie-post!  I wonder what the site uses to determine that you are idle, vs just reading stuff on a page...

[javrsmith]

The time for checking activity is weird. I have 1.25 hours but I have spent far more time reading and surfing here.

[wimidopen]

hi - just a newbie. glad im here.

[gnomicide]

Lets go, newbie-post!  I wonder what the site uses to determine that you are idle, vs just reading stuff on a page...

My guess is it has some server-side timeout, where you need to cause some post back to refresh the idle countdown.

I can say refreshing the page every 10 seconds for 3 hours works great...

[deac]

Fifth post.

[gnomicide]

NVM, it just triggered. Takes an extra ~15 mins to get permissions after you meet the requirements.