I know I have spent more than 4 hours on the forum, and have made the required number of posts in the newbie forum for access outside newbie-land yet, here I remain. There are a number of mining pools for crypto-coins (which is how I found this site), that use this for their sites forums. It is kind of messed up that a person could join an outside pool, have an issue, pop here to 'their' forums and have to jump the hoops of the newbie forum rules (which seem to be broken anyhow) to post for a mitigation to a problem. Still not getting any satisfaction after spening DAYS on the forum, eventually finding the 'newbie rules/section' following those rules, and STILL not have access to a forum(thread) they should by rights have unrestricted access to. Hook a fellow up, or tell me what I have yet to do to get out of newbie-town.