This change affects users of the community as well. I know the some moderators worked hard on the freeipods.com conga line and were themselves on it. Now that newbies are not allowed to post in SPAM, the Conga line is dead and there hard work goes unrewarded (no ipod referalls for them). The conga lines also brought alot of new people to this site (from yahoo or google search) such as myself. Just my 2 cents.