Is Newbie Status Really That Hard?

[BitshireHashaway]

Aye, waiting around for 4 hours is painful

Its interesting I've heard some people saying the waiting is the hard part and others saying that the five posts are the hard part. I would recommend just browsing and trying to learn more about bitcoins while being logged in in order to solve your waiting problem if the posts are easy for you.

[BitshireHashaway]

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Edit
I was going to say: it causes pointless posts. I was going to use one post per word but it looks like I need to wait 5 minutes between posts. I was goint to do this to reach my 5 post threshold. I get that spam may be a problem, but this is a pain for new users. I'm not even that new, I've been lurking for a while, but it is my belief that if I have nothing useful to say then it's useful to say nothing. My first post here was about a technical question to do with the mtGox websocket API, but I got no replies, most likely because I wasn't posting somewhere people interested in that stuff read. I really don't want to have to make a bunch of meaningless posts, "Hey, BTC is teh bomb!" or somesuch. It's a waste of time for me, anyone who reads such pointless posts, and of the site's bandwidth. Perhaps I'll finally grow past my newbie status in another few months, but I refuse to jump through hoops for anyone, even you guys.

Grrrrrr!

Lol:). It does cause some pointless posts, however when you look at it the other way you will have a maximum of five useless posts for each user and then you won't really have them as much anymore because there is really no advantage to people posting anymore. Five useless posts per user seems a lot better to me than people bot spamming posts by the dozens or more:)

[dsm]

> Is Newbie Status Really That Hard?

With my 5th post, I say no, but it is annoying 

[Bitcycle]

It's a minor annoyance, really.  But I've been reading the forums for years, it's too bad that time isn't useful somehow. 

[stevejohnson]

I could not figure out why I could not post after a registered a couple of weeks ago it was driving me crazy. So I went to re-register and read the info that I apparently ignored the first time. O well live and let learn

[coke]

I think it's a good way to keep spam low, especially on the non-newbie boards. Personally it doesn't bother me much, the logged in time is long past, just been lurking most of the time.

Regards,
cK'

[cryptogoldstandard]

No, but I find it irritating because the newbie threads aren't really what interest me. Of course noobs can always read the other threads, we just cannot make any comments. Getting the 10 posts is easy, but it is taking some time to get up to 4 hours. I'll admit I tried leaving the browser open and hoping the clock wouldn't stop, but it does stop rather quickly. I suppose it does have a purpose though, sort of like the speed limit and I don't like that much either.

[iAmAYacoin]

I hate these damn post requirements. Also there's nothing interesting in the newbie section damnit.

[bitbuilder]

The 4 hour requirement makes sense though. Should fly by for anyone truly interested in bitcoin.

[bitcoiningit]

Hmmpf.
I've done my 5 posts, and over 4.5 hours logged in.
Still do not seem to have moved out of newbie status...

[Jazeon]

Maybe you must relogin?

[brucekang]

smiling but no saying！

[mr_lambda]

It seems to be considered reasonable and proper...

[sarc]

I asked my girlfriend and she said: 'yes, status really is that hard'. But I say who cares, he's a noob.

[sadface]

its not that hard

[rudrigorc3]

yes

[LittleBitSparts]

Final post to escape!!  bye!

[SyRen1ty]

5 Posts is just great.

[erem]

Not every newbie is interested in writing posts. One may just want read topics and learn. The problem is when one decide to make a bid in an auction, one have to wait 4 hours and write 5 silly posts without any value...

[Jazeon]

Annoying for me is the limit of the residence time on the forum.