Newbie restrictions

[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.

[mpechs]

the 4 hours shouldn't be a problem.

but can i post in the auctions after the 5 posts?

i really want to bid for the asicminer blades

[dcore]

Yeah, I really wanted to bid too, but I guess that probably won't be happening. The restriction is very reasonable from an objective point-of-view, though.

[puexam]

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

I read!

[whatnow]

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.

It looks like you have to be active here. I needed to do some reading on another site and my time had not really changed.

I had read some other sections on the Forum and would like to comment but I figure if someone is not willing to meet the Newbie conditions they are not going to stick with the Forum long term in many cases.