It appears I have NO choice but to complain and post worthless posts until I reach some unknown level.
Yep, and it's not unknown:
You can only post in the Newbie and Local sub-forums till you have made one post and waited 4 hours. This post must be substantial: at least several sentences. The other two restrictions are you need 1 post to be able to send a PM and 10 posts to put a link in your sig. You can only post once every 360 seconds to start and there are a few other things that trigger this timer such as logging in and searching.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177133.0UMM That quote does NOT answer the issues I was posting.
Let's examine some logic.
You can only post in the Newbie and Local sub-forums till you have made one post and waited 4 hours.
I fulfilled that after my first post! This should no longer be the reason for the issues.
The other two restrictions are you need 1 post to be able to send a PM and 10 posts to put a link in your sig.
10 posts to put a link in sig does NOT address the issues I posted.
You can only post once every 360 seconds to start and there are a few other things that trigger this timer such as logging in and searching.
This only partially answers the issues. I will soon be at 10 posts, and we will see what issues there are after that.