My coment was nothing against you or someone with a few posts. I might wrote it not precisely,
In the past newcomers could join discussion threads after they wrote some amount of posts in newbie section and also frequency of posting was restricted (but of course I never thought it could work well against spamming so I enjoy new rules)
That rule was exactly why I didn't have an account until now. Whenever I had something I wanted to post, I couldn't justify signing up to then proceed to spam a bunch of random threads in the newbie section to then get the ability to post in the thread I wanted. I'm fully aware I now look like a sock puppet account by waiting this long to sign up, but that policy has been a major deterrent.