The rules are ok, it prevents all the folks just coming here to spam the shit out of the forums.
And 4 hours and a single post isn't that difficult to achieve if you just browse around and read a little a perhaps introduce yourself to the rest of the newbies/forum - and if you have some interesting knowledge about BTC the why not use that knowledge to create a relevant first post ?
Anyway to all the complete newbies heres a good little topic
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=386530.0 with all the functioning and paying faucets and alike.
Happy hunting and of course welcome

J.