The reputation and privileges system is very heavy on the beginner's end of the spectrum -- not being able to post pictures, leave comments, create tags, or even USE the meta forum makes it very difficult to use this website at all, without having spent copious amounts of time on it.

This, in my opinion, broken, system leads to a very inefficient operation on this site.

In my first question, I simply wanted to post an image demonstrating my problem, and had to waste even more time by going to imgur.

Not only that, but I couldn't come to Meta to explain this issue, I had to dickishly post on the normal forum until someone migrated the post over here.

I get that nobody likes a new kid, but this seems a bit much.

BY THE WAY:

Thank you to whoever migrated this post. That was very kind of you.

The reputation and privileges system is very heavy on the beginner's end of the spectrum -- not being able to post pictures, leave comments, create tags, or even USE the meta forum makes it very difficult to use this website at all, without having spent copious amounts of time on it.

This, in my opinion, broken, system leads to a very inefficient operation on this site.

In my first question, I simply wanted to post an image demonstrating my problem, and had to waste even more time by going to imgur.

Not only that, but I couldn't come to Meta to explain this issue, I had to dickishly post on the normal forum until someone migrated the post over here.

I get that nobody likes a new kid, but this seems a bit much.

Why the hell would this website have a privileges format that forces people to linger on it for extended periods of time in order to even comment, upvote, or for Christ-sake, even post about the website itself in the correct forum?

This post belongs on Meta, but I can't even post there yet because the rules don't allow for it!

For a website where computer scientists flock to discuss one of the best open-source operating systems in the land, it's incredibly ironic that it operates so inefficiently.

Clearly this is opinionated and might even be considered obnoxious, seeing as I am posting while I am frustrated. Regardless, this is an obvious problem that ought to be solved, and it doesn't take a lot of effort or time to fix it.

Oh and apparently, I can't even post this for another twenty minutes because it's impossible for a human being to have more than one question in one sitting? Bitch, please.

Thoughts, comments, questions -- leave them below (IF you have "a reputation of 50 or higher" :P)

The reputation and privileges system is very heavy on the beginner's end of the spectrum -- not being able to post pictures, leave comments, create tags, or even USE the meta forum makes it very difficult to use this website at all, without having spent copious amounts of time on it.

This, in my opinion, broken, system leads to a very inefficient operation on this site.

In my first question, I simply wanted to post an image demonstrating my problem, and had to waste even more time by going to imgur.

Not only that, but I couldn't come to Meta to explain this issue, I had to dickishly post on the normal forum until someone migrated the post over here.

I get that nobody likes a new kid, but this seems a bit much.

BY THE WAY:

Thank you to whoever migrated this post. That was very kind of you.