Can't post answers to questions

youcantoo_linuxguy · 10-16-2006, 02:36 PM

Why is it that one can not post an answer to ones question until one has asked 3 questions first?

I attempted to post an answer to a question in the server area and a message was displaied that I could not reply to the message until I pposted 3 messages. What gives here? Maybe I don't have a question or questions to ask. Seems rather silly that I have to ask for anything before I can post help for someone else.

acid_kewpie · 10-16-2006, 02:48 PM

it's just a spam prevention method, i'm sure once you have passed this limit you'll have no problem helping everyont and loving ievery minute of it. it's not a fantastic way to resolve the situation but it does fool a lot of bots.

XavierP · 10-16-2006, 02:54 PM

You have encountered our spam protection. If you really really really need to post a URL, you have 2 options:
the first is to make 3 useful and helpful posts without URLs - this proves your good intentions and you are allowed to post a URL
the second is to try wwwDOTexampleDOTcom

jeremy · 10-16-2006, 07:30 PM

Just for clarification, the error message has nothing to do with answering questions versus asking questions. It only has to do with not being able to post a URL until you have three posts.

--jeremy