Is Newbie Status Really That Hard?

[jarf1337]

There should be less hours.

[Buffalo66]

Yeah, the 4 hours of browsing is kind of annoying.

[niniyo]

I wish I had registered a long time ago, because I have already spent hours browsing the forums as a guest.  Oh well, it shouldn't take too long to get out of this newbie state.

[Spetznaaz]

I feel like i am not a noob, i joined just to answer someones post they were having trouble with something... Now i gotta try and make 5 meaningful posts... hmmm

[BitPappa]

Hey, if this gate-keeper method is truly effective, than the quality of the posts should be at least marginally better outside the newb area than inside the newb area. But I haven't really noticed a difference. Hmmmmm...

Two more minutes, and I can post where I want! And by now I've discovered there's plenty to keep me busy just in the newbie zone!

[w1seguy]

There should be less hours.

+1

The time logged on counter seems to stop counting if inactive too...

[ali1234]

First post.

I've been reading this forum for over 18 months but never had anything useful to say. I signed up to claim bounty for adapting cpuminer to scrypt-jane. I need to make 5 posts before I can reply to that thread. I don't like this very much, because I have to make five useless posts before I can post something useful that people actually wanted. I tend to think it makes post quality worse because it does nothing to stop people who have a lot of nothing to say.

[pyrite]

What's a "Newbie"? 

First Post!

[Financisto]

Newbies suffer "anxiety"... LOL

[Taoimean]

I'm mostly in agreement with the other people saying "I wish I'd known" so that my time spent curiously browsing the other boards would have counted in my favor. I only made an account when I wanted to reply and was surprised by the Newbie restrictions. Hopefully the services I hoped to barter haven't gone to another poster by the end of my four hours. 

I will make sure that I warn other people about the Newbie restriction when I direct them to this board, though. I have at least one friend browsing right now, and his own Newbie status would probably be less than painful if he was building up board time while lurking.

[workpart]

SO close yet so far

[phys-]

Well there is a reason, I need to post on another section.
I guess I will just have to wait...

[chrono.v]

Still waiting...

[zizipop]

There should be less hours.

[BitByteBacks]

No.

[dmirtyP]

still....

[niniyo]

I've served 3 hours and 20 minutes of my newbie sentence.

40 more gruelling minutes to go.

[jamesblack]

not, just to help the forum with your posts and help people who need

[wedgy2k]

I'm fed up with NEWBIE status, as i've got some genuine questions etc... (This bumps me another post  )

[cydus]

Never