So am I understanding this correctly?
A new registered account has to have 50 posts before being able to post/reply to threads in other areas of the forum?
This is to help cut down on spam and such?
Seems awfully counter-intuitive seeing as I've been a member of other forums for years without even achieving that many posts. It sure seems like your trying to encourage spam posts such as:
Hey Boaz,
Updated info on the restriction is found here:
http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=15958.0mods, apologies for double post.
Ah ok, thanks, that seems a lot more reasonable.