Originally posted by CosmicYahtzee
What exactly is the purpose of the 20 post rule?
It is kind of a let down to newcommers
Not sure but I think its to stop people who just join to post silly threads and then leave. a while back on ATS this became a big problem, many new
members would join and just post basically rubbish threads about stupid stuff. I can give an example
A thread was started about proof aliens didnt/did exist, they posted a swarm of flies and called it a swarm of Greys

absolute rubbish, very
funny but not really what ATS needs! So the 20 post rule was brought in to stop this type of thread getting posted. Other threads like Is this plant
in my back garden an alien also come to mind.
Maybe there are other reasons Im not sure but if you make one post a day its still only going to take you 20 days isnt it.
[edit on 10-8-2009 by Mr Green]