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"Posting in Prime FOG"

Okay, I know that EVERYONE is hissed off at the newbies for making 20 new threads a day, each!, in the forums but why should your status prohibit you from writing your opinion in the Prime FOG?
I would like to think that I have posted quite a few half-decent posts in my time here at SR's discussion forums so why should I, and other newbies, be refused access to a particular forum when I have never tried to mis-use or deliberately annoy anyone on these forums.
I may only have posted 150 or so times but why should I have to get to 300 posts (and 7500 words) just to write in the Prime FOG? Believe it or not I mostly like to think about what I write before I start rather than just writing a whole load of cack.
I guess even on the internet you cannot escape the labels which are found in the big bad world and I just think that is a very big shame.

(This isn't a very structured argument as I just finished a 10 hour shift at work, I need my tea and I'm annoyed at not being allowed to write in the Prime FOG)

Just to summarise:
I don't want to post rubbish just to get to regular status.
Why should newbie status not allow you to post on a forum?

What next, a forum where only females can post and a forum where guys can post?

If anyone can carry this argument better than I please feel free to post in here, I'm off to get some food!

Grix`s Brain wrote:
> I still need to write more... you lot have fingers though. Can't I
> be excused?

No becuase that is technically construed as being racist.

:-)

only if you get a note from your parents or get a doctor's note otherwise sit/float (or whatever you do) down and let the class get back to work

I still need to write more... you lot have fingers though. Can't I be excused?

SR aren't denying you your write (:-D) to voice your opinions on Prime. It's just you can't post a topic.

But then Tony or someone will reduce their count. The GAD judges have to read every post, so they will know if someone's spamming.

I feel that i have posted at least a half decent post as well. I feel this is just unfair. If you do make a forum just for newbies, it will be spammed up with useless newbie topics, like 'spam here to become a regular'. It will just mean that newbies have a reason to spam more. Although I will not be doing this, and will act the same whetherim a newbie or a regular.

I've been here for about 33 days, longer than some regulars like Bonus. Yet they still get the advantage.

Oh well.

Here's an idea: Make one forum where only Newbies can post new topics, and leave FOG Prime as it is. Then see which forum is better!

mcg_highlander wrote:
> Tony are you practicing for politics because that was very
> diplomatic

No - the press would murder me.

RAINBIRD OR BIRDBRAIN?

In the house of commons today the honourable member for Sheepgrazingtown, Mr Tony Rainbird is said to have admitted offering a prize for the first female regular to "sit on his forums".

When questioned further Mr Rainbird became aggressive and said "FOG OFF" to a reporter.

A band of young men dressed up as animals and insects surrounded the reporters and began prodding them and offering imported Gameboys.

Mr Rainbird's political future now hangs in the balance, and he is said to be close to resigning after facing the whip.

Ooh... newbie error message. I'll have to read that.

mcg_highlander wrote:
> If newbies can't post in the Prime FOG then it would be my
> understanding that they wouldn't go in there to even read anything
> in there. Then once they become a regular they would just post the
> unoriginal stuff anyway. So really all you are doing is delaying the
> stupid posts rather than getting rid of them.
Well that's what it
> appears like to me.

Newbies can post on FOG (Prime Topics) but they can't start a new topic.

Webby - if this is not clear in our "newbie error" message then please make it so.