[PROBLEM] The amount of spam on this forum :((

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(27th Nov, 2016 09:55 AM)Rickt1962 Wrote:  true,you do not have privilege to open new threads as a new member. You need to make at least 5 replies to unlock full account.
This is one of the ways how to stop spamming appears on site.

Any recommendations on how to do that? As a brand new user with installation problems, I've never even seen Xbian, much less have anything of value to post to an existing thread, but I'm expected to make multiple (my blurb says "more than 2") posts to the forums before I can ask how to install the software?

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(6th Jul, 2018 06:32 PM)aidalgol Wrote:  

(27th Nov, 2016 05:16 PM)rikardo1979 Wrote:  

(27th Nov, 2016 09:55 AM)Rickt1962 Wrote:  Its seems as a new member I don not have privileges to open a thread
Also yes when coming to the =http://forum.xbian.org/ I get a lot of spam pop ups hitting me

true,you do not have privilege to open new threads as a new member. You need to make at least 5 replies to unlock full account.
This is one of the ways how to stop spamming appears on site.

Could we please have some soft of introductions thread or something for new users to post to before they are allowed to post? I don't have anything useful to contribute to any existing thread, but I need to ask a support question, and I can't. Or what about throttling the rate of creating new threads to one a day instead of outright blocking thread creation for new accounts?

This is my problem too. I need to make three posts having never even seen Xbian before I can ask a support question? When I've seen this requirement in the past, the boards have had introduction threads that newbies could post to in order to satisfy the minimum post requirements.