I think the minimum posts is 3O. I am not sure.

But I am so close to this ticker thing. yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy super excited.

I don't understand how a 20 day waiting period deters spammers. Can't they still sign up for the forum, and spam the **** out of the place? What do the signatures have to do with anything?

The signature restriction was put in place after a lot of sneaky spammers would post in lots of places across the forum, and then put a signature in place with a spam link. We typically review posts as they are posted, so it's a LOT harder for us to catch a post that was OK before, then had a spam link added later via signature (when you set your signature, it goes and updates all of your past posts). So it made tracking down spam a nightmare, because any post, even one you'd already reviewed, could turn to a spam post without you realizing.

Also, the board has a preview feature when you're on the main forum pages - you can roll your mouse over and get a text preview of the wording in the post. Sure, if that says "NIKE SHOES $29", we know we have spam. But signature info doesn't show up in that preview, so you actually have to click through to each post to see the fact that it's spam.

I agree completely! I can't wait for my ticker...

yeah Im using my lack of ticker as a motivator to get my butt into gear so I can knock myself out with the weight Ive lost. Im not going to weight myself for the next 18 days and then on the day I get my ticker, I'll have some weight already off

OK.. I am excited for my ticker after reading this. Although I am now confused on how many times I must post. Was it 20 or 30?

It's 20.

Would everyone please read the following post in the Announcements and Forum Help area.

I'm closing this thread as it really doesn't belong in Introductions.