Ok I haven't seen that link myself.
I saw someone that it required 4 hours and 5 posts in the newbie forum.
Maybe that's the old guideline. But it's a good way of making sure the newbie forum has lots of traffic.
All the hassle just to post in the relevant sections that folks want to post on. But maybe this site has encountered many trolls and needed to have some form of control?
Oh well.