Just a bit taken aback after putting in the time to make the somewhat long posts and they have never shown up. This is the first forum I have seen use this technique to deter spam in years. I thought the days of restricting member's posts was over. :ermm:
I admin and mod several forums. We haven't used this technique since '08.
Before the forum changed hands, I had a lot of posts here under the same username. They're all gone and I was able to re-register with the same username and email that I used way back in late 2000. This is not the first forum I've had the same thing happen. I was a mod on one when it happened.