1 down, 4 to go I guess. This seems kind of silly, encouraging users to just kinda bs post their way out of newbie status.
Also doesn't it make sense that this just hurts legitimate people... people aren't patient... however if a bot was programmed correctly it would wait the required amount of time to post legitimate looking posts in the newbie section until it had full status... Then go to the full forums and do it's spamming.
It's like us legitimate people need a bot just to get us a legitimate status...