Topic: Anyone else hate posting restrictions? (Read 1087 times)

IMO old accounts created before the introduction of the minimum post requirement should be exempt.

It still is a pain to get around the restrictions.

Other forums have CAPTCHAs and pages of spam. Restrictions are the lesser of three evils.

Doesn't seem so bad.. at least there's no captchas! I hate those things..

It's far better to have restrictions than to have a spammy crap forum.

actually, the ridiculous posts about nothing serve a very useful purpose: they identify the 'tards who need to be flagged with the "Ignore" button as wastes of bandwidth and oxygen.

Yes. This is ridiculous. I have a problem connecting to a pool and I have the simplest question but have now spent an hour just trying to jump through hoops to ask it!

I know how you feel. I do the same thing.

Hi Dysperium, most welcome to the interesting bitcoin forum! I understand that you're not the ordinary spammer type, there are plenty of those, and that's the reason why there's newbe restrictions. Just be sure to be logged in and do some posts, and you will soon be out of newbe land.

There was a very big problem on the forum for a while where all sorts of derelicts and scum came onto the main forums and spewed all kinds of nefarious and vomitting stuff, so these are measures put in place to prevent that from happening again.

So while there are a few people like you, there are many that needs to be held in their ears to behave, so the rules are general, and not for anyone in particular.

Hope to see you later in the main forums, and welcome again!

Wish older users that were here prior to the new restriction policy was grandfathered though

The restrictions wouldn't be here if some spammers didn't go wild in the past, gotta take the bad with the good

Nope, restrictions are a good anti-spam and trolling feature!

For moderators and admins spam bots have to be the most annoying nuisance in the whole world to deal with, imagine if you got non-stop telemarketing calls that wouldn't persist unless you pulled the phone cord, that's basically what it's like when you're the admin of an internet forum. Even with the newer forums the wankers still find a way to get in and spam the shit out of everything on their profiles etc. It's nothing personal but this and banning I.P's is so far the only real solution that anyone has of stopping these twats, captcha's don't really work and tend to annoy the legitimate people who visit websites so that's not really much of an option.

This is also why you have some places that are invite only because spam bots aren't intelligent enough to get past that yet and of course most normal people aren't going to go out of there way to register to an invite only site and pass invites to them.

It helps keep the spam out.  You have to want to be here.  It is cumbersome but makes for a better community.

I'm kind of in the same boat; I tend to make less posts with longer messages, than lots of posts with shorter messages.  So my post count won't be going up very quickly when compared to the time I'm actually around.

However, anything that can help protect the community from spam is cool with me.  A good thing about the restrictions; you don't have to enter a captcha for every message you post.  Captcha would effectively stop bots, but would annoy every single person ever for all eternity.  Instead, the restrictions instantly lock out bots and doesn't affect anyone after the restriction is lifted.

Also, newbie questions are locked to one place, allowing the mods some breathing space in the events topics have to be moved for being in the wrong spot (I haven't seen this happen often, maybe once since I've been here.  I'm willing to bet it's thanks to the restrictions.)

They're not hard to lift, either.  Post in 5 spots, lurk for 4 hours, all done.  Now, for increasing the requirements to lift restrictions...perhaps.  I feel they're currently adequate, but they also have certain problems attached with them.  If someone wanted to get straight to the loan boards to get right to the scamming, it's easy for them to escape the restrictions; it doesn't stop them.  It would be nice if it could, or if we had a system setup where people would vouch for the validity of another person's presence on this thread (Like a Karma system, where you could vote for the good someone does, and the bad.)  That way someone would have to, say, get at least 10 'thanks' or 'thumbs up' or '+1's before they were allowed to post in the loan board, forcing the person to actually interact with people (I know, terrible, considering this is a forum   )

Not your house, you don't make the rules. Deal with it.

I actually put up a thread about that in the meta earlier today.

i would even request higher conditions to get out of the newbie section.

If you manage a forum, and get threads like this (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hello-everybody-141709) plastered over the forums en masse each day, you'll be pretty surprised with the negativity you garner after a few days.

Hahaha, that's exactly what I was talking about. You hate ridiculous posts about nothing. The only reason I started it was to be able to satisfy the restrictions. But thanks for the warm welcome all the same. It's nice to see that the internet is still full of people poised and ready with negativity to anything they feel even slightly irritates them.