I'd like to come out against basing the posting rights on post count. Having been a moderator on another board, it leads to lots of pointless posting to jack up post counts.

I've been here for a few months, but don't have a lot of posts. Why? Because I'm still learning. I could start posting all over the place, but most of the threads I read often are ones where I have no useful information to add. Most of my posts are questions or off-topic. That said, I just posted a WTB in BST and maybe I'll get better at restoring and want to put up a razor even if I spend more time here lurking and learning than posting.

I could start posting all over the place. Lots of "lol" and "I agree" posts, but if lots of people are doing that you end up with a discussion board without much discussion.