nice idea to combat spamming
hope that's sarcasm, it's pretty easy to beat, make a few accounts,
automate posting to the newbie forum, then open up a load of seperate browser sessions with an auto fresh tools like I am now so I can rack up the hours needs.
If anything it just a way of deterring genuine forum users from using their accounts because lets be honest, locked into one lame 'newbie' board for 4 hours is just dumb as fuck and defeats the purpose of forums in general