Topic: What do you guys think about this Whole Newbie system? - page 2. (Read 1956 times)
Yep, it's crap. (Woot, now I'm one post closer to "big boii"!)
I found other threads outside the newbie forum where I could add something constructive.
It were be awesome if a better solution could be found. How do other big sites solve this?
It were be awesome if a better solution could be found. How do other big sites solve this?
The restrictions should be lowered.
I dislike the current system strongly. There are still people on the internet who'd never post stupid questions but rather lurk, then lurk some more and finally submit only a few well thought-out contributions. At the moment I really can't motivate myself to create meaningful content in a spammy sub-forum just to increment my post count. There are more pleasant activities to waste time on. Getting back to the lurk cave.
I dont really mind. Ive been on a lot of forums where theres no reason to post in the "intro" thread. At least now theres incentive ;-)
I made an account here a year ago and this wasn't here. I don't mind it. People are still helpful on this board.
Read for 5h and post 5 post, I think it's reasonable.
Well i can attest to lolballer73's behavior as being constructive. We just completed a trade and he was fair and helpful throughout the process. 
Your argument
You can go to the other thread, you just can't post there yet. There's a difference.
For exceptions, there is a whitelist request thread. If you can show that you've helped others here, have been constructive in some manner, or have a specific need then often that will help towards gaining post access to the forums.
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/whitelist-requests-want-out-of-here-15911
we have to waste our time on these newbie threads for a while before we can get to the "big boiii" threads.
You can go to the other thread, you just can't post there yet. There's a difference.
For exceptions, there is a whitelist request thread. If you can show that you've helped others here, have been constructive in some manner, or have a specific need then often that will help towards gaining post access to the forums.
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/whitelist-requests-want-out-of-here-15911
I believe this is a reasonable restriction which helps to prevent people from spamming and trashing on forum.
I know what they are trying to get at, stop new users from spamming the threads but i also think it is kinda pointless because we have to waste our time on these newbie threads for a while before we can get to the "big boiii" threads. I think all new members should be given a chance to post on all the threads and if they fuck it up by spamming or something else, they should be kicked to the newbie threads until they know more about the bitcointalk newtwork.
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