The Newbie forum was introduced in order to stop the "bitswing" spam from being able to be posted on every forum. If that happened, discussion would be completely impossible. Forcing the spammers to reach 50 posts before leaking their spam onto the main forums gives us a chance to eradicate it before that happens. As we are all using Tor, there is no way to filter this in any other manner. When you reach the main forums you will appreciate it more. Time of registration cannot count as the spammers could simply register X amount of accounts everyday, wait the necessary period of time and then post their spam everywhere, completely negating the point of having the Newbie forum. Libertas