Originally Posted by Hydro Junkie

Not really, if you know the reason behind it. That rule was installed four or five years ago when the forum started being slammed by people advertising their products in single post threads with lots of pictures. Next thing we saw was people had been swindled out of their money by these "advertisers" with no way of getting it back. After several complaints, the admins went through, cleaned out all of the posts that were clearly just for advertising a non-existent product, and installed the 10 post requirement. Needless to say, the problem went away almost immediately since the people that were putting the posts up now had to actually become an active member and that was something they didn't want to have to do.
I return you now to your normally scheduled thread content