Originally Posted by Village Genius The reason it was implemented was because we used to restrict the marketplace by posts. Theoretically it was to prevent users from posting massive amount of crap for no reason. It was completely ineffective. I was never a fan of post based restrictions, they only encourage bad posting. I would generally ban members who did that.

Ah right, I remember that now. Too many just joined here, to post tons of marketplace threads to make sales and didn't bother posting else where at all really. I remember the post count limit thing not working great either, because it just had users posting "junk posts" all over too. Then you all went by the Points system for accessing Marketplace right, like 10 to 14 points? Er, I mean being member 3 to 4 days first.

So basically you're saying, just allow all areas to raise post counts, and do like a points system or what-not, for limiting specific usergroups to specific areas.