I feel the need to reiterate this point, because it appears that some people are looking over the major reason for this change. By requiring people to have a 250 post count, it will help to develop a better understanding about who the person is, and if they are trustworthy. Somebody would have to spend a fair deal of time editing their posts and being extremely careful as to what they say if they were to be an untrustworthy person, and attempt to pass off the point that they were not so. By having 250 posts, if somebody were planning on making a large financial transaction, then they would have a larger amount of posts to read over to understand as to who they are dealing with. I understand how people are complaining that they are being prevented from a right on the forum, but it is not a right, but rather a privilege. You might be a trustworthy person with only 30 posts, but somebody planning on making a $1500 transaction with you wants to have a little bit more proof than 30 posts from somebody. Even if you have been a long time member here, but are more of a lurker than a poster, than you probably haven't developed much for a name for yourself, and there won't be as much of a spool of posts for somebody to read over.
