Been a while since I've been on this board and I was going to list a couple things for sale that might be of interest here. Says my post count is too low. I've been a member of this board since 2009 it says in my profile. Seems like I joined before that, probably back when I was a member of the association. I've bought and sold maybe a dozen or more items through the years in the classifieds. Have 55 Pm's associated with those transactions. I'm wondering when this went into effect and where did my old posts go?

Thanks

Apologies for the inconvenience.

The change in needing a certain post count occurred after a spammer managed to create an account despite our efforts to weed them out. He made 1 post before his account was deleted, however since SO MANY users are subscribed to the For Sale forum, that one post got emailed to MANY USERS. Since it was actual spam content, we got blacklisted by a lot of email providers, and it took approximately 4 months to completely clean up all the fallout from this one one post and be able to successfully send emails to everyone again.

This is the reason a post count is now needed, so that the spammers that make it through the vetting process still have to do more work in order to do the job they want to do. This helps keep our forum clean of spam posts, and preserves our email reputation so we can continue to successfully send everyone emails.

We decided a long time ago that post count would only include posts that actually contributed to a discussion and/or provided information. For that reason, posts to For Sale, Forum Help and the no longer available Off Topic forums were excluded from post count. Any excluded forums have this fact noted in their description.

I am guessing most of your public posts in the past were in the For Sale forum, so thats why your post count is low. Please join us in the other forums for a bit until your post count is high enough to participate in the For Sale forum again.

Keep posting Oldtimer your count is up 5.  You need at least 10.  It is the same for everyone and there is no shortcut, it is how the forum system works.  Reply to 5 more things and life will be good.

Mike