You're lucky or smarter hehe, it took me weeks

Besides being defensive and criticizing the OP for something most of us do all the time (skipping long texts when browsing), I think we can learn something here.

It's that the forum could be made more user-friendly by addressing this issue that is sure to be slowing down it's growth.

For example the post button could be made available for the newbies on all forums, but when clicked it would show a message explaining why he is not yet allowed to post there, just my 2 cents.