Reply #67: Welcome to DU! It's not your age, it's the number of posts you have. [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

It's a way to control the constant infestation of freepers who join DU and then start posting abuse - some of it truly sickening - and trying to disrupt threads with misinformation and distractions. I don't know how many posts it takes nowadays for someone to be able to start their own thread. That information is kept confidential so that the freepers won't just run up their number with meaningless short posts til they reach the magic number.

I suggest you post a link and excerpt of your article in this thread; you shouldn't post the entire thing if it is long. If people are interested, one of them should be willing to start a thread for you with your article. Once the thread is started, you can post in it all you want.

Hope this makes sense - at this point my brain is mush.

Again, welcome to DU - you sound like you have important things to tell us.