Is Newbie Status Really That Hard? - page 20.

ughnewname

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For someone who mostly lurks, the 5 posts requirement is a tough one.

I'm not willing to lower the quality of my posts just to break out of newbie-land. I originally joined this board to PM a seller on the market board; I ended up spending my coins elsewhere.

dfrechet

newbie

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This is completely untenable. A significant number of competent developers are staying away from this forum because of these posting requirements antics.

linuxer

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Official Troll of bitcointalk,Certified by John K.

5 Post is ok but 4 hours of online time is too much.

nesociety

newbie

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I do accept the newbie status with no problem, I guess it is needed to prevent spam and make some sort of filtering !

As this is my first post Tongue

Riot75

newbie

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Just say a short sentence that adds something to the discussion. Not all that hard...

payasyougovpn

newbie

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Sounds to me like an unnecessary maturity test.

Deathwing

legendary

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Stultorum infinitus est numerus

Its really annoying to wait this thing.

BitshireHashaway

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Quote from: Gibson on May 05, 2013, 09:46:18 AM

Quote from: valladex on May 05, 2013, 09:34:32 AM

I understand the process but their must be a better way. Many people join the forum when a pool problem occurs and feel the need to post within the pool's section but are unable to because of the 5 post restriction (4 hours is easy), but finding worthwhile posts to reply to are harder to come by.
Maybe a trial period in the pools forum only would be better, the moderators do hang out there as well.

I agree, people will just get pissed off when they can't post.
I wonder what anyone is gaining with these rules?

The think the forum is gaining is that they can limit all of their 'spam' theoretically to one sub-forum. The thing I've noticed is the newbie forum seems to have more moderators than other forums and I think that in a sense is to help limit their spam. I agree though with maybe a trial period in the pools forum but I posted by pools forum questions in the newbie section and they were answered quickly.

BitshireHashaway

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Quote from: nerdcustoms on May 05, 2013, 05:24:01 AM

Quote from: Stunna on May 05, 2013, 04:18:04 AM

It is a small price to pay if it keeps the forums advertisement/Spam free Tongue

it creates more spam in the newbie forums, which makes it kind of frustrating to view. Why not add phone number or e-mail verification to improve status faster, and then add a Captcha on each post.... wouldn't that make more sense to prevent spam bots?

That's true, but at least all the spam is restricted to one sub-forum. I'm pretty sure you need an e-mail to register and e-mail verification doesn't make a big difference since it takes 3 minutes to create an email these days. I wouldn't like a phone number verification though because I don't like giving out my phone number. Captcha in each post would prevent spam bots but could get annoying for non spam bots.

wab89

newbie

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I was newbie 20 yrs. ago.

ixxi

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I made an account just because I saw something interesting and wanted to reply. Guess I can't....

BitshireHashaway

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Quote from: MartinReynolds on May 05, 2013, 02:29:12 PM

Quote from: stubbscroll on May 05, 2013, 09:47:25 AM

For someone who mostly lurks, the 5 posts requirement is a tough one.

The 5 posts is pretty easy, there are quite a few decent threads in here.

Regards,

Martin.

+1, I always thought that the 4 hour requirement, not the 5 posts requirement would be the hard one. There are at least several good threads and I think if someone wanted too they could get 5 posts in 10 minutes tops. Though that's just how it was for me.

wonko

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Quote from: wizardwithagun on May 05, 2013, 09:50:05 AM

It's a pain in the ass, but at least it prevents heaps of spam accounts posting on the main forums

I agree, it's far too tedious for spammers to make an account with these regulations Tongue

MartinReynolds

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Quote from: stubbscroll on May 05, 2013, 09:47:25 AM

For someone who mostly lurks, the 5 posts requirement is a tough one.

The 5 posts is pretty easy, there are quite a few decent threads in here.

Regards,

Martin.

wizardwithagun

newbie

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It's a pain in the ass, but at least it prevents heaps of spam accounts posting on the main forums

stubbscroll

newbie

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For someone who mostly lurks, the 5 posts requirement is a tough one.

Gibson

newbie

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Quote from: valladex on May 05, 2013, 09:34:32 AM

I understand the process but their must be a better way. Many people join the forum when a pool problem occurs and feel the need to post within the pool's section but are unable to because of the 5 post restriction (4 hours is easy), but finding worthwhile posts to reply to are harder to come by.
Maybe a trial period in the pools forum only would be better, the moderators do hang out there as well.

I agree, people will just get pissed off when they can't post.
I wonder what anyone is gaining with these rules?

valladex

member

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I understand the process but their must be a better way. Many people join the forum when a pool problem occurs and feel the need to post within the pool's section but are unable to because of the 5 post restriction (4 hours is easy), but finding worthwhile posts to reply to are harder to come by.
Maybe a trial period in the pools forum only would be better, the moderators do hang out there as well.

oroboras

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Same here - I've been following the wall observer thread for weeks, but not commenting.

When I decided to say something, i found I couldn't. So now, this is my last spammy message before I can get down to some hard core economics...
I'M FREE!!!!

Gibson

newbie

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I've been here for weeks and decided I should reg today and now I'm posting mostly useless post, like this on.

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