I appreciate your frustration and I have received many messages from people expressing the same sentiments, sometimes quite vitriolic. However the new rule is working at containing the spam, just looking at the sheer number of spam threads in the newbie section speaks volumes and many are still asking the same questions that have been discussed to death which shows many are just not making any effort to invest the time to research and read the wealth of information contained within the forums before creating new threads, make of that what you will. The sense of entitlement on here sometimes is palpable, many of the posts I have made in the newbie section seem to go unread as a lot of people seem more focused on simply posting spam to hit their 50 rather than educating themselves. This rule has nothing to do with censorship, it was a response to combat the spammer/scammer threads (anyone notice the virwex and bitcointalks threads are gone?), it was also intended as far as I know to encourage new forum members to get orientated to forum etiquette before being let loose on all the other sub forums. Hit your 50... it's not too onerous a task. ssbd