New user restrictions added

[Harrison]

Due to the sudden increase in spam threads created by newly registered members I have decided that some restrictions needed to be placed on the abilities new users had.

These restrictions are as follows:

A newly registered member cannot view any forum attachments. If another member has attached some files for other members to download a new member will now need to take part in the forum and make some posts before they can then access and download attachments.

You don't need to post too many times before this restriction is lifted.

The second and more important restriction is that newly registered members cannot post any Links, Images or email addresses in the posts they make. When you first become a member of this forum you can now only post plain text.

This restriction is automatically lifted after you have posted a specific number of posts on the forum. I am not going to state how many posts are needed before this restriction is lifted and you can then post links, images or email addresses within your posts, but i will say that it hasn't been set to a silly number and all serious active new members won't feel this is restrictive in any way.

If you have any questions about this new restrictions please ask.

In addition the forum rules have also now been updated to include additions to restrictions relating to SPAM.