I should have joined this place when I first learned about Bitcoins... now that I've been mining them for a couple of weeks and have backed up a wallet, I have to think of five things to post here. If I had known about the newbie restrictions a while back, I would have registered and posted my many questions (which I already found out the answers to) here...
Same here. I always read the forums and gain knowledge from them before I start asking questions. Over a month of research and testing, mining working, wallet(s) good, created a local bitcoin investors group and I register to reply to some posts in the hardware section and "blam".... I am stuck in the newbie section.
I left my computer on last night after logging into the forums and then when I woke up a was doing my normal browse through the forums reading and I realized that I had been reading for 6 hours. So I check to see how many posts I need to get free from here and I am not logged in. I log in and I have 32 mins total. So in frustration, I left to go workout and get some food.
I'm at 2hrs, 44min and counting.
Its all good. I have about 20 pages of hand written notes and lots of new text docs and way to many web links. It took me the best part of a half hour to organize all of the links. I started with one folder and now I have 11 sub-folders.
OK. Back to browsing....