During the Moderators' Meetup in Wellington last weekend we came up with a list of features to add to Geekzone. Geekzone Live was one of them.

I have added now a minimum number of posts requirement to some forums. This means new users will not be able to create new topics, or reply to ongoing topics in some forums.

Initially we are bringing this to "Offers/Wanted" and "Geekzone".

We have always removed posts from Offers/Wanted when the user is new - most of the times we see Trade Me sellers trying to link to their auctions, without have ever participated on Geekzone. To help us keep Geekzone free of those we now require a certain number of posts before new users can create or respond to topics in that section.

A different situation happens on "Geekzone", which was created to discuss topics related to our site. A lot of new users post new topics on Geekzone, when they should really create those in appropriate forums. Because I am tired of moving those topics I decided to implement a minimum number of posts before new users can create new discussions or reply on that section.

Moderators, Administrators and Trusted users are not affected by these limits.