May 13, 2019, 7:18 pm
Last edit by: JDiver
Welcome to FlyerTalk!
As a brand new member, we want you to feel welcome to our frequent traveler community of over 600,000.
Some spammers also sign up and create spurious accounts to spam us, or spam our members privately without posting. We have found the most effective way to protect our members from unwanted spam include:
1) Allow new members a maximum of five posts a day initially. (We won’t reveal how many posts you must make to be released from this condition because we’d be giving it away to spammers, but it’s really not onerous.)
2) New members are not allowed to post web links, image links, URLs. If you attempt doing so, your post will be hidden temporarily until a Moderator can review and approve it.
3) New members can make new posts or start new threads, but some posts and new threads may be hidden temporarily and sent to the moderation queue for review and approval.
4) New members are restricted in how many Private Messages they can send initially. We have found a few have taken advantage of signing up for an account to spam members with PMs.
(If you encounter any glitches, such as a message warning you can’t post a URL but don’t have one in your proposed post, let us know here or contact a Moderator in the forum you’re trying to post in. A glitch existed for a short time, but we think it was fixed.)
We apologize for any frustration you might experience from this initial throttling back of your activity, knowing you might have a number of questions that brought you to establish an account, or that now that you’ve found us you’re enthusiastic and want to participate fully in our community. As you become more active, we also suspect you’ll appreciate how we value your privacy and protect you from unwanted spam.
The Administrators and Forum Co-Moderators
As a brand new member, we want you to feel welcome to our frequent traveler community of over 600,000.
Some spammers also sign up and create spurious accounts to spam us, or spam our members privately without posting. We have found the most effective way to protect our members from unwanted spam include:
1) Allow new members a maximum of five posts a day initially. (We won’t reveal how many posts you must make to be released from this condition because we’d be giving it away to spammers, but it’s really not onerous.)
2) New members are not allowed to post web links, image links, URLs. If you attempt doing so, your post will be hidden temporarily until a Moderator can review and approve it.
3) New members can make new posts or start new threads, but some posts and new threads may be hidden temporarily and sent to the moderation queue for review and approval.
4) New members are restricted in how many Private Messages they can send initially. We have found a few have taken advantage of signing up for an account to spam members with PMs.
(If you encounter any glitches, such as a message warning you can’t post a URL but don’t have one in your proposed post, let us know here or contact a Moderator in the forum you’re trying to post in. A glitch existed for a short time, but we think it was fixed.)
We apologize for any frustration you might experience from this initial throttling back of your activity, knowing you might have a number of questions that brought you to establish an account, or that now that you’ve found us you’re enthusiastic and want to participate fully in our community. As you become more active, we also suspect you’ll appreciate how we value your privacy and protect you from unwanted spam.
The Administrators and Forum Co-Moderators
New Member Posting Restriction [URL - link - image]
Dec 14, 2017, 1:31 pm
#16
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
We do not openly reveal how many posts one must have to be able to send five PMs in one day, etc. for obvious reasons - some who are here to spam really want that information. But it’s not a terribly big number, so you’ll soon be a full member of the community.
Some functions do have higher requirements: editing Wikiposts requires 90 posts and 90 days, and The Coupon Connection requires 180/180, for example.
JDiver, Co-Moderator
Aug 31, 2018, 4:10 pm
#17
Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 7
Trying to post but cannot
Hi,
Trying to post in Other European Airlines but getting message
"You are not allowed to post URLs until you have at least 5 posts"
Which is fine but my message does not have any URLs in it, just text and 2 images.
Could it be something in the images is being decoded as a URL maybe ???
andytw
Trying to post in Other European Airlines but getting message
"You are not allowed to post URLs until you have at least 5 posts"
Which is fine but my message does not have any URLs in it, just text and 2 images.
Could it be something in the images is being decoded as a URL maybe ???
andytw
Sep 10, 2018, 7:03 pm
#20
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 33
I have been trying to locate where the “button” is to post and can’t see it anywhere. I have posted last year about this time, and again in March, earlier this year, over 20 posts, but can’t remember how to do it as I am not on here often.
Sep 11, 2018, 9:04 am
#21
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
2) To post and start a new thread (see below)
3) To reply to the thread and start a new post or quick post (see below)
4) To reply to a post or to reply to the thread with a “quick post” (see below)
JDiver, Co-Moderator
Oct 9, 2018, 12:25 pm
#24
Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Los Angeles
Programs: Internet Brands
Posts: 3,867
Oct 9, 2018, 12:27 pm
#25
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 5
Oct 30, 2018, 10:58 am
#27
Administrator
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Los Angeles
Programs: Internet Brands
Posts: 3,867
Sometimes this can happen if there are certain characters (such as "#") or symbols in a certain spot. Looks like you're at 5 posts now, though, so you should be all set.
Nov 6, 2018, 4:44 pm
#28
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: BGI | MIA
Programs: AA Platinum Pro | Hyatt Globalist | HH Diamond | SPG Gold
Posts: 316
I'm having this same error
Im trying to get to 5 posts sorry
Im trying to get to 5 posts sorry
Last edited by cblaisd; Nov 6, 2018 at 6:39 pm Reason: merged poster's two consecutive posts