15? 25? 42?

I can assure you that someone knows

Every time this question is asked, the number grows a little higher.

Hi,
I'm honestly just posting this because I have the same problem (can't reply to a pm), and this will get my post count up...
F1etch

This whole restriction seems rather silly as you can see from this thread that some of the "newbies" have registered years ago. There might be a particular problem that they have asked and received a PM for and are now unable to answer and otherwise don't post much (which makes sense if they have nothing to contribute to an ongoing discussion).

Hi. There's been some indication that PMs will be used for participating in a custom hardware project on these forums and I would like to participate. Anyone know what the post count is for being allowed to use private messages?

I don't know the *exact* post count required, but it's somewhere around XX. So keep on tapping that keyboard, you'll get there 😁

I tried to PM a member a link to a photo of my motherboard and a link to the jumper settings for it for his database and the message just sat in my outbox and wouldn't drop into Sent and I'm at 65+ posts 😒.

the PM only moves on to sent if the person receiving has opened it afaik.

Doh 😜.

sf78 wrote on 2021-03-24, 13:10:

This whole restriction seems rather silly as you can see from this thread that some of the "newbies" have registered years ago. There might be a particular problem that they have asked and received a PM for and are now unable to answer and otherwise don't post much (which makes sense if they have nothing to contribute to an ongoing discussion).

I agree, personally I check this forum on regular basis for years but haven't had the need to post, now I need to pm someone to order one of their new products and got stucked by the limitation.

Well, I did some research on forum and ended up checking the "Newly registered users" group which I am still a member of, sorting members by the number of posts shows the maximum number of their posts is 19, so my best guess is the 20th post will remove you from the list and lift the limitation.

Okay, If it would be 20, than it is okay. But yeah, it is a little annoying to cannot answer if somebody wrote a message. Maybe the other person thinks one is unpolite because it seems like ghosting.