Newbie to this forum but not crypto. So we have to browse for four hours and post once?
I believe it's the other way round, you need to post once and then wait for four hours before you're able to post anywhere else or send PMs. From the sticky:
Newbie Restrictions
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.
I've been reading this forum for a while and figured I'd finally register so I'd be able to PM the person running a group buy, and hopefully this will qualify as my one substantial post so I can do so in 4 hours. =p