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No worries - I understand the frustration and the implication of the 50 post rule for those who haven't necessarily been as active here.  The rule was a surprise even to us as moderators, but we're all adjusting to it together, and there's always a chance that the staff will tweak the policy in the future (since it is still a very, very new policy!). 

It was not due to the posts of new members (you'll see some incredibly ridiculous questions from even the "oldest" members here!) -- it really was primarily created as a way to help us get a handle on the spam, especially since there are only a few of us moderators here, and none of us can be here 24/7.

Anyway, I appreciate that you can kind of understand, even if it is still frustrating to you.

(also, feel free to start a thread to spam to 50 posts, if you'd like.  there are a lot of threads like that in this section!)

Thank you again for taking the time to express your opinion but also hear where we were coming from as well. 

If the OP has been here for very long, then he should know exactly what the forums were like as far as that bitcoin spam / scam went before the admins implemented this policy.  It flooded all of the forums and we had no way to control it before it was all over the place.

With the new policy in place, we at least have a little time to catch the spammers, delete their scamming attempts, and ban them before they reach the 50 posts that would allow them to flood all of the other subforums.  It's for containment, and to give us a bit of an advantage in protecting the community from the spammers.  (the ones who were spamming by starting hundreds of threads all night to advertise their scamming sites like "mtgix" "btkoin" "bitcointalks" and "virwex")

The OP is free to be as upset as he wants and to vent about it, but everyone else faces the same 50 post rule before being able to post on the main forums, and being angry about it (and cursing the people who made this site / marketplace possible) isn't going to do anything to help the situation.

Sorry, but without a vendor account, you are not permitted to sell things here (including a moneypak code).

The admins implemented this policy in order to help protect the community against the bitcoin spammers who were scamming people left and right.

Also, if you do a search for it, you will find a thread started by PrincessHIGH where she offers to post people's reviews in the official review thread for their vendor for them, if they are still stuck in the newbie section.

DPR mentioned in the announcement thread that if anyone discovered problems like this, they should contact support over on SR and they'll address the issue.

Duplicate thread.  Also, NO ONE should be accepting PayPal payment for bitcoins.

Actually, no, it is only risky for the person who is accepting PayPal payment for bitcoins because they are sending out bitcoins (non-reversible) for PayPal (easily reversible). 

People would be stupid to sell bitcoins for PayPal.  They will get scammed.

Also, I'm moving this thread to the proper off topic section.