Post Restrictions

[GrayTech 0]

I have had an account on VisaJourney for about a year and a half and have found it invaluable in our visa application process. This is an amazing site and I refer people to it frequently. I'm not a heavy contributor and have primarily been using the site to get information, track statistics, track our own visa process, and read many of the visa stories posted on the site.

Today, I was looking browsing the forums and came across a post from someone applying for a similar visa from the same country we are. I had a lot of empathy for the users situation and felt the need to reply to the post with some helpful and supportive information. However, when I went to submit, I was told I could not post anything until I had posted 5 posts.

I have been active on the site and have had an account for some time, but not as a posting contributor until now. I'm guessing that this is why I'm still listed as a newbie.

My question is, how can I get enough access to reply to posts in the forum? I generally am not much of a poster. But sometimes, I feel I might have something useful to contribute.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I have had an account on VisaJourney for about a year and a half and have found it invaluable in our visa application process. This is an amazing site and I refer people to it frequently. I'm not a heavy contributor and have primarily been using the site to get information, track statistics, track our own visa process, and read many of the visa stories posted on the site.

Today, I was looking browsing the forums and came across a post from someone applying for a similar visa from the same country we are. I had a lot of empathy for the users situation and felt the need to reply to the post with some helpful and supportive information. However, when I went to submit, I was told I could not post anything until I had posted 5 posts.

I have been active on the site and have had an account for some time, but not as a posting contributor until now. I'm guessing that this is why I'm still listed as a newbie.

My question is, how can I get enough access to reply to posts in the forum? I generally am not much of a poster. But sometimes, I feel I might have something useful to contribute.

Join one of the game forums here, until you get enough posts.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/155-games-while-you-wait/

[Pooky 3,784]

Or, if you don't understand any of the games, you could send the poster a private message?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Or, if you don't understand any of the games, you could send the poster a private message?

Maybe Kathryn or one of the mods know better, but I think one of the anti-spam measures for sleeper accounts requires so many active posts, before before you can use the PM feature, or post in the upper forums. The OP just needs two more posts to get full access - she could even reply to both of our posts here to get over that threshold.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Hmm, you should be able to respond to posts right from the beginning, otherwise, how are you supposed to get 5 posts in order to use other features like the PM function?

Yes, the 5 separate post requirement is to prevent drive by spammers who come in and mass inundate all of the forums with spam, or who mass PM our members with spam. We are still working on preventing the mass 'comments' spam that does make it through the filters but have set up some pretty strong filters that takes care of the majority of it.

If you are not allowed to respond in the forums until you have 5 posts, then there is a glitch in the software. If you tried to use the PM function to respond, then yes, you would need to have 5 public posts before you could use that option.

Also, I just checked your account and you do have 6 active posts to your credit so please post if you are still having problems. If you are, then the Administrator needs to take a look.

Edited April 15, 2013 by Kathryn41

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

Did you try to post a link? I vaguely remember something about only being able to post links to external sites after a certain number of posts (also an anti-spammer feature).