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.