Jesus Christ, dude. I already explained that the main purpose of this rule is giving the two forum moderators the chance to catch the bitcoin spammer before they can flood the rest of the forums. It's not an insult to new members, or to members who have been lurking but not posting. Furthermore, neither samesamebutdifferent nor I have any say in the policy or its implementation, so being angry and sarcastic directly toward us is uncalled for. We didn't even know when the policy was put in place! We're doing our best here and I can understand a little frustration, but you're the one choosing to take this policy personally when it was not intended at all as a tool of condescension.