At what level can I post in other threads?

I've looked all over this forum, even done a Google search to try to find out at what level I can post to other threads. What level, then, would that be?

May I suggest that something be added to the Information section (or somewhere in plain sight) why people can't post here and what level is required.


Thanks,

Starkman

Actually the community team did post information about it when the game was first released, but it's been buried under other developer threads (I agree it really needs to be 'stickied' in this forum), but anyway, here's the post in question which explains the posting restrictions: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...17#post1015217

Wow! I've never ever seen anything as restrictive as this, but it is what it is.

Thanks very much,

Starkmann

Originally when version 1.0 was active, the forum was not restricted, but during ARR's Beta test, the Beta forum became inundated with spam and troll threads, so to try and bring order to the madness SE implemented similar restrictions on the (now closed) Beta forum. I presume that must have then spooked them and thus they decided to head off any possible trouble with ARR's launch and implemented these restrictions on the official forum accordingly.

It's always possible they may remove these restrictions at a later date as well.

The restriction I hate is the character limit.
What ends up happening is that you aren't able to full quote the post you are replying to and reading a thread becomes confusing.
Which of poster X's three posts have you "snipped" and replied to?
How many pages do I need to go back to see what the person is replying to?

Is it an Exploit by modifying a post to ignore the 1000char limit? Is it reportable?
Moreover is there any solution to stop speedposting? ^^

This has quite heavily affected my feelings towards FF14, I have to say. It's like SE wants to limit my involvement in the community. It also smacks of an easy way to avoid spam and flamewar threads rather than investing more in forum moderation.

This whole debacle with fake forum "moderation" is really off-putting :(

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Actually the community team did post information about it when the game was first released, but it's been buried under other developer threads (I agree it really needs to be 'stickied' in this forum), but anyway, here's the post in question which explains the posting restrictions: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...17#post1015217

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For a while now, I'm always wondering why I couldn't post a new thread in an area other than 'New Player Help', but thankyou for the info :)

Why that thread isn't stickied is unfathomable. From a new player's perspective, the FF forums are extremely unfeiendly (not the forum posters, I mean the 'back off, noob' approach the forum limits give).

How the forums are "moderated" is one of the biggest annoyances I have with FF14. I've never seen such a character limit on postings (initial ones anyway), how many posts you can make and what level you have to be to make posts. I have yet to see any kind of actual moderation on these forums and they could have some actual moderators if they asked for volunteers from the community.

I have to say it completely took me by surprise the first time I came up against my posting limit - I was in the middle of an interesting discussion, and then got hit with this limit when I tried to reply to someone, and then suddenly understood why people edited posts to reply to things that were said further down the thread (making threads very disjointed at times). I also then spent a while searching the forums to try and work out what the posting limits actually were, without success. That post that was kindly linked earlier should be stickied and prominent.

And the restrictions seem arbritarily harsh. I have become almost frightened to post in discussions that interest me, in case it becomes more involved and then I suddenly get cut off from the discussion. At least now I know what the limits actually are I can account for that, and maybe will become less reticent again (many thanks to the user who linked the post - sorry I forgot to check your name). However, it's still offputting how non-user-friendly these forums are. Every high traffic forum I use has anti-spam measures, but none as hostile and inconvenient as this for ordinary users.

The 1000-char limit is also just bizarre.