why do we have to wait so long?
If you think 4 hours is long, you're in for major disappointment when mining your BTC ;) What's the hurry?
Seriously, just keep the forum open, read, write, and 4 hours are accumulated in no time :)
Yeah, but you read all that is of some value in the newbie section (unless you are really a bitcoin newbie) within an hour or so and then you're just left with 3 more hours neede where you should browse the forum, but cannot reply ...
And, I guess most people joined because they wanted to join discussion outside the newbie section (like me) ... but then they find out they can't :(
I originally thought the 4 hour limit was "your account must be at least 4 hours old", but it seems it is really 4 hours active ...
Well, I remember Opera has some neat feature "reload this page every X minutes", there is no such thing in firefox (though there probably is some plugin for that), but I guess people can probably quite easily set up some reload-o-matic to accumulate 4 hours without actually looking at the board.
Therefore this 4 hours limit is kinda pointless. Or at least too high.
