The reason for the 5 posts/4 hrs rule

[randomcloud]

You're really not going to stop someone determined enough to screw up your forums with a stupid scheme like this.

[sisyphe]

With this system I have to write useless posts, like this one...

[Harryman]

I agree

[alphacoin]

Yes it is a good idea

[Biggen]

+1

[Boman]

I'm agreeing too.

[Dasneko]

If anything it creates a very poor culture in the newbiew forums that later gets imported into the rest of the forum after the post and hour limitation. Just look at all the spam answers people give just to pad their total.

[pleasuretek]

long time lurker, first time poster...  I appreciate this system. A lot of people want to hit the ground running without rtfm, then post crap cause they don't know what is what they just strut.... wtf.
Been mining for a while, joined just to get in on the auction action.

[PicassoRoll]

It serves two-fold: weed out the spammers/BOTS, and also encourages discussion from new members. I like the system as it stands.

[tlo]

I understand the 4h rule. But why 5 posts? Everybody (also a bot) can post some random messages...