The reason for the 5 posts/4 hrs rule

[Illimensky]

I like clean forums. 

Completely agreed.

[rolloffacliffpleaseanddie]

Id prefer to do away with Bitcoin jail

[gramma]

I still dont like it.

I didn't like it either.  I, too, had been popping in and out over the last couple of years, but didn't feel I had anything really to contribute, so I didn't.  Then came the time that I REALLY wanted in on a conversation... so I ran into newbie jail, too.  Hated it.  Toughed it out.  You can do it too.  It sucks.  Wait until you see the various things available only to people with a certain longevity.  Just today, someone giving away licenses to MS product, but only to people who registered before I did.

I call it my lurker tax, or lurker penalty.  As a long-term lurker I was really a taker for a couple of years before giving back, however modestly.  Welcome to the boat.

Keep reading - you'll have your 4 hours soon enough.

[bilsef]

I don't like it, but I understand why we have it.

[davidrools]

Even as a newbie, I like it. Hell, it could be 50 posts and 5 weeks. I think the quality of the content is a reason so many lurk and don't even need to post to ask questions.

Though, if the point is to prevent spambots, couldn't a bot get around this?

[mitman]

only 55 minutes for me and then i will be free!

[quetzacoatl]

With this 5th post I have to only wait an hour to post outside newbies, yay!

[zulufields]

still got a long way to go

[bublus7]

This is my 5^th post... but still 2 more hours to go... 

[kagsc]

Second post, 4 hours remaining! At least we are still able to lurk around.

[Salwilliam]

I like clean forums. 

Completely agreed.

I agree.

[thegamekind]

with the amount of posts and people here is no wonder why this rule is in place

[spike420211]

it's more of a problem with the four hours' time.
You actually have to have the browser OPEN to the forum that long [so it appears].

[Dasneko]

...
Has no one learned a damn thing about hackers, pirates and spammers online? Stupid setups like this will not "stop them" and I have not even gotten into how you treat everyone like those scum and waste our time. Its a DRM for Forums and I for one think its retarded.

[freq]

Its keeping me from joining group buys.

[Alexander The Great]

i like clean forums

[JimCGSavings]

It's no big deal. Spam your 5 posts in the newbie area replying to hello posts.  Then go to hardware and read up on how to setup your own miner (researching the parts and costs) until you find out that the gpu cards are being obsoleted by ASIC miners that you're in too late to get in on. That'll take about 4 hours. (grin)

[Eva Braun]

There are no viable good reasons for newbie jail..

[Bitcollector]

The combination of 5 posts and 4 hours of time spent browsing is to weed out spambots and trolls.

If you don't like it, the rest of us (jr., full, sr., hero, mods) don't care.

We all like clean forums, don't we?

Yes, accept it took me 2.5 hours to find this post so I could make a post to help me on my way to being able to answer somebody. i new their was limitation, but could find it.

[Breen2543]

I like this rules.