Let me make one thing clear: I cannot whitelist you people, unfortunately. I would be more than happy to but my privileges do not allow me to do so. You will have to wait for authorized personnel to sort through the queue. My apologies.
If the whitelisting process actually doens't work, so why there are the newbie restrictions like they are? Requiring a few posts that make sense is alright, but requiring four hours of activity on the forum means people who wait for the Jr. Member status but don't have the need to comment on everything will be just poking around uselessly for a few hours. Wouldn't it be better to decrease it to just, say, one hour?