Pardon me for jumping in with a slightly out of topic question, but after searching for some time few hours ago, this thread seems the most recently active and the most less-OOT for what I'm about to ask.

The Brand New accounts, were they restricted from creating a new thread as their first post? And, if this is true, wouldn't they only need to do one post to "rank up" and remove this restriction?

I would really appreciate the help, I needed the info for a project I am currently investigating, where the dev claimed they created an account (currently on BN rank) but they can't create ANN, and someone had to give his old account to the team so they can publish the ANN using said acc.