[HammyMcSquirrel]

Originally Posted by subin

Thanks! Just to clarify your post, does this mean that new users can create a thread without having any prior post history, as long as the 24 hour restriction has been reached? Does this also mean that new users won't be able to make a single post within the 24 hours of registration? If so, what happens when they press "quick reply" within the 24 hours

There's an automatic check on the 13th minute of each hour. (No significance to the minute choice.) As soon as your account age reaches a day, you'll be able to post and make threads at the next 13th minute. That's all that is needed.

Before your account age reaches a day, you will be unable to post by all means. Hitting "New Thread" or "Quote" or "Post Reply" etc. will give you the following error message:

You do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

What happens is that when you make a new account, you are put into the Registered Users usergroup. This usergroup has no posting privileges. When your account reaches a day in age, it gets moved into the FFR Players usergroup, which has the default posting privileges.