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.