New members Posting

[P-3 Guy]

Originally Posted by Merrymeeting

It's a feature of the forum software used, not specific to this forum. For some types of forums, it's good to know whether someone has experience with the forum content.

Member "status" or, more particularly, number of posts, doesn't necessarily give you an accurate idea if someone has "experience with the forum content," since it's only a measure of what someone has written, and not what they have read.