Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 03:54:29 PM

Advertising a site on the forum isn't against the rules if done right.

That's the point. If a website, project, or service wants to advertise themselves in the forum, they should do it the right way by creating their ANN and properly announcing it for everyone to see and use if they want. What these newbie accounts do is surely not the right way to do it.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 03:54:29 PM

I am not sure what the moderators do in situations where, for example, you gather proof of 10 brand-new accounts promoting and sharing the same links with some bullshit story as reason why they do it. Would those be deleted or are the reports left unhandled?

They are handled, we have seen such things happening in the past where multiple accounts are created to shill a single project in a specific section, I started a topic regarding the issue previously.

Quote from: Oshosondy on Today at 04:16:19 PM

You can see many newbies with loan request on the lending board. People have reported it that newbies should not be allowed to post there but nothing done till now. We should just leave some things as they are.

Well, I believe the loan issue isn't that big because a newbie with valid collateral can still get a loan, but this is a different thing altogether.

Quote from: acroman08 on Today at 04:35:31 PM

even if it is just a 24-hour restriction it could still deter newbies who actually like to learn or have questions

You probably didn't get it. The restriction wouldn't restrict newbies from asking questions or creating topics or making posts, it should only restrict them from posting links.

Quote from: stompix on Today at 05:12:32 PM

How is this going to stop them?
They will just create the account, wait for 24 hours make the post and be done with, it might deter your lonely manual copy-paste spammer that just wants to post as many ref links on as many websites as possible but it won't do much if some service really wants to spam the forum!
As soon as they learn that there is 24h delay they will adapt accordingly!

The 24-hour restriction isn't just 24 hours after the registration time, I'm talking about "Total time logged in" here, which means that they will need to spend at least 24 hours in total in the forum to be able to post links. So if a newbie spends 4 hours a day surfing the forum, they should be able to get through the restriction in 6 days.

Quote from: Aanuoluwatofunmi on Today at 05:34:14 PM

Can we assume for one man's transgressions as being applicable for others to also share in the consequences, not all newbies are shit posters, spammers or scammers, we can't just act blantly in such direction and take assumptions on that, I've seen a lot of newbies coming here with various opportunities and some are even taking more efforts in purchasing copper membership rank in other for them to be able to unleashed opportunities they brought in to this platform, but in case you detect any for abuse, make report to the moderators.

As I mentioned in the OP, this isn't to restrict newbies who join the forum with a good purpose because I'm not suggesting a restriction that would stop newbies from making posts or asking questions or learn things around here, the restriction is only for those who create accounts, start a topic, and write some bullshit with a link to promote a service or something, it will only stop them from posting links and it shouldn't affect normal newbies.