As a member of the community and as an individual, I feel insulted by the posting restrictions. The level I have on my character in game has zero relevance to the value and validity of my thoughts and words in the community. The restrictions are especially discriminating against slow levelers/casual gamers.
Furthermore, the posting restrictions discourage healthy discussion, and thus community building.

I agree that the creation of new threads should be limited in order to keep the forums accessible (though the limits are currently too harsh), but the current restrictions for posting responses are unacceptable. If there have to be limits for pragmatic reasons, they should be based solely on forum activity and membership. Example: the ability to make new threads is locked until the poster has both been a forum member for more than 3 days and made a minimum 10 posts. (Obviously such rules can not apply to the New Player Help forum.)

Until the restrictions are either lifted, or loosened and based on reasonable community-based criteria, I can not consider myself (and most of my friends, who take their time playing this game) welcomed and valued in this forum and by this team.