Just noticed the change in the sales forum and thought I'd make a comment or two about it. Apologies if people find it long-winded.
IMHO setting a threshold number of posts before people can access the sales threads might or might or have an effect on spamming (who's to say that spammers won't just start spamming other threads?) but it will definitely have an effect on the people that were (IMHO again) the most likely to use and gain from the sales threads, those more or less new to the sport.
Take me for example. I have a grand total of 17 posts. I don't see them going up any time s