Really stupid question about other boards on this forum, don't flame

I’ve looked in the FAQ’s and stuff but can’t find anything .. Anyway ..

There are little locks on the other forums, is it okay to post there? Or do I need to have a certain amount of posts first, or do I need to pay to be able to post there? It says public forum here, the other ones say member .. I thought I was a member since I registered, but I can’t get access there. Do you have to pay to be a member and post there, need a certain amount of posts, or are the locks just decorations there and I look even dumbed, and I could post there anyway?

I think you need something like 20 posts, and have been here for two weeks to post in the Members forums. In the meantime, if you have a topic for the other forums, you can post it in the Newbie Forum and one of our helpful moderators will conveniently move it for you. :)

Welcome..back, by the way.

The Beasty One is right.

Hulk,

I’d recommend reading the FAQ, it’ll help with learning the rules and some tips for how to best make use of the information here.

You don’t have to pay for anything here. The ‘Place is free. Donations are appreciated to help pay for servers and other upkeep, as well as coffee, Depends, carpal tunnel syndrome treatments, and a subscription to a foot fetish website for Supersizeit.

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One further comment, once you have the required days and posts and can start threads in any forum; if you still see a little lock it means the thread is closed and no one may post to it. There are a couple that are locked up tighter than a nun on sunday.

There’s also a forum called Darkness at Noon that’s locked, last post made in 2004. Scares the hell out of me.

Why is Darkness locked anyways?

Don’t know. Which makes it all the more bone-chillingly terrifying. :)

Seems I recall some newbies once wandered into Darkness and never came out again.

It got locked because people could not agree to disagree and it got ugly.

Sunny:

I just checked and didn’t see any little padlocks on DAN. Did someone leave the door open again?

Posting is locked, threads are still readable in DAN.

Nothing is locked when you have the strength of the Hulk.

Hulk Smash!

I have always wondered about that one; does it mean that the other 6 days of the week they are easy?