Topic: Newbie restrictions - page 236. (Read 442041 times)
Still won't keep scammers out. It will keep them from coming back easily, i get it... just kind of lame.
It's too bad the internet has come down to requiring some boards having to resort to these restrictions. I wish there was another way to screen malicious people out.
Tho I understand the reasons for imposing such a rule, I dont' necessarely have to agree .
The restriction are reasonable
I dislike this 
Doh, now instead of just posting my question in "Mining Support" I have to go around post on other subjects :3
I feel ya - it's a tough world we live in
Doh, now instead of just posting my question in "Mining Support" I have to go around post on other subjects :3
ouch, expensive lesson there...
Only logged in 1 hours 42 minutes. More posts necessary before I can put in a warning about a bitmit user. Woohoo.
What kind of warning?Exactly what I thought and that is why I asked it
LOL
Well, DOH!, if you want to tell us what's going on?
Let me start by saying the reason I got screwed over is largely my own fault. Some douchebag has an account named TheTechguy75, well at least he did until Marius banhammered him. He was selling a '2nd hand' xfx 7970. Deal seemed expensive enough to be true, he also had some boards and 2600k's listed there. I suggested I send him 15btc and the rest paypal or amazon payments so it would at least be somewhat reversible. Sent a small down payment thru btc because he was getting furious and was going to 'relist the card.' Basically pissed away a couple coins, 8.3 to be exact, my fault, but i figured a 325 dollar 7970 was worth the gamble, worst case I would be out a couple weeks worth of power on my mining rigs. Once things started going downhill I had Marius look up his IP and it was coming from London. Whoops! Watch out for anyone who lists stuff with escrow, they can request early release of escrow and if you don't watch it close the time period can expire and it will be released to them.
I just wanted to anounce my new webservice =(
Only logged in 1 hours 42 minutes. More posts necessary before I can put in a warning about a bitmit user. Woohoo.
What kind of warning?Exactly what I thought and that is why I asked it
LOL
Well, DOH!, if you want to tell us what's going on?
Only logged in 1 hours 42 minutes. More posts necessary before I can put in a warning about a bitmit user. Woohoo.
What kind of warning?Only logged in 1 hours 42 minutes. More posts necessary before I can put in a warning about a bitmit user. Woohoo.
What kind of warning?
Only logged in 1 hours 42 minutes. More posts necessary before I can put in a warning about a bitmit user. Woohoo.
Well this is a good idea.
I like this.More sensible and reasonable.Good call Theymos
Sigh*... I'm in stuck in this section 
Requested to get out like a week ago but I guess I'm not approved yet. If this procedure is done manually, then there's some inconsistencies here. I don't see much spam from other forums, and yet they don't implement this "newbie section" restriction. Most of the spam is prevented in the registration process I think.
Requested to get out like a week ago but I guess I'm not approved yet. If this procedure is done manually, then there's some inconsistencies here. I don't see much spam from other forums, and yet they don't implement this "newbie section" restriction. Most of the spam is prevented in the registration process I think.
I don't think these restrictions make much sense to be honest, just apply some good filters to signup and have vigilant moderation for the occasional human-spammer imho. They needlessly fill this newbie section with spam of people trying to get to the other sections for no reason.
I agree. There are other ways to prevent this from happening.
This may have been said before, but this will seriously spam the newbie forums. Esspecially the "Introduce yourself" and "Newbie rules" threads.
Having said that, i'm now up to two posts. :-/
Having said that, i'm now up to two posts. :-/
I definitely agree with the newbie restrictions.
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