I am logged in, and can post a new topic to "Using these Forums"; but, I can not receive the same permission to start a new topic in "general Discussion"??

Why is this?
Is it due to the time of day??

Thanks,
travelbonus

You need a minimum of 5 posts in total to start a new topic in "General Discussion".

1 post for me... working up to 5

You should really sticky this or post it somewhere visible, because I had the same question, luckily travelbonus asked it for me

Sticky is here and also it is mentioned in the Forum Guidelines (See here)

I guess I'm glad I found this thread. I have been frustrated for about 45 minutes now.

Well Im glad I finally seen how to and where to post.

One of the admins should make it known to Skype that they should give the message in the GD forum when you go to post the REASON WHY not just you are not allowed to post here. Took me 25 mins to find out "the reason"

This is a very good suggestion.

You need to post 5 answers!

hopefully not 5 answers, b/c all i have are questions :s

Uhh, I just post to get my post count up to 5 so I can ask my question... stupid rule

You can always post somewhere else and afterwards ask a moderator to move your topic to the right sub forum.

wasn't aware, thanks for the info

so i try to have an answer from about two weeks , mmhh i understand now!, i am going to put 5 new post?, thanks for your suggestion. I have to work hard now and type and retype

I guess if you didn't have this policy you would get flooded with people who find talking to their family pet more useful than emailing Skype support!

Honestly what is with the people you employ to answer support questions?

Martin

Simple. The people employed to answer support questions can only be reached here: http://support.skype.com

I do not see the point in this rule.
I joined this forum just to be able to ask a question about the use of skype.
I have nevere even used the program before and I wanted to get some questions answered before I spent $40 on skype pro.

Where is a person like me supposed to go with his question ?

You are very welcome to our forums. There is a lot of information available from experienced and less experienced users / volunteers. Our Search Option can be very helpful.

Have you already visited the Knowledge Base, and Help section?

For Customer Support please click the link in the post of Claudius.

Ike

I have never heard the rule about 5 replies before and I talk on a lot of forums. Seems rediculous. So I will just make 5 replies in this thread.


Hey, I tried to start a new topic and it worked after just one reply on this thread. I will try another thread.

http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=71187

Oh my, I was VERY frustrated for about 35 minutes myself. My coworkers kept asking me what's wrong. And I even WORK for Paypal.... I just wanted to respond to a post regarding the solvency of the company.
There really ought to be a better way to let us know this rule.

It is a pinned topic in the Discussion Forum and mentioned in the Forum Guidelines.

Other ideas are welcome.

Ike

man, how i hate this restriction, this is so ridiculous.

bump, just to get the rights to post a question

OH i see

PS: first one

I find myself in a similar situation I can not reply to a post where someone is blatentley saying that mobile phone companies in europe do not charge a call reciepent this is not true I live in Portugal and Optimus make a charge this makes skype calls to my mobile very expencive, how much more usful information is witheld from us by stopping us from replying to discussion posts

It's great that we have this forum, and I sort of see why you do it. To reduce double posts etc, but it seems like a total catch 22. It means I have to post 5 meaningless posts to post the one question I need an answer to. And lof people will do this.

OK so this is No1.

I'll ask question here and see if it gets answered.

How do I stop skype from popping up? Not on the start up I don't have it on automatic start up, I mean when I'm reading something on an internet page and it pops up literally every 10seconds. So that if I press an arrow key and it pops up at the same time it moves something on skype, or if I press enter at the same time it decides to pop up it calls someone. It's driving me to distraction and means I've had to sign out, and now cant see when my friends are online.

Please help me with this problem it didn't happen before and I don't know what happened to make it so. I tried searching in the forums but all i could find was about it starting up from when the computer boots up.

Cheers

Dan

What version of Skype and what OS are you using please.

Also, the actual forum rules are very hard to understand for this issue.
As it does not say where you can actually post to earn the ability to post in the first place.

Also the initial front page listing of forums is also very hard to figure out where someone who is after some help should post (after of course looking through the pat answers in the KB).

Thank you for you welcome feedback. But this was initially not the original subject of this topic.

We would like to ask you to post comments in this topic so we can keep it all in one place

Thank you for your cooperation.

Ike

posting 1 out of 5

2 out of 5

3 out of 5

4 out of 5

5 of 5

Sorry does not work that way you have to make 5 seperate posts.

Bleh, pinning it somewhere is not a good enough solution.

Suggestion:

Instead of "You do not have permission..." message, say:

"YOU MUST HAVE POSTED 5 POSTS BEFORE YOU CAN START A NEW TOPIC IN GENERAL DISCUSSION"

And IMO, the 5-post rule just forces people to post 5 made-up questions, increasing clutter.

I understand the reasons behind it, but the cure is worse than the disease in this case.

This happens very very rarely. Note that you can always reply to a post in the discussion forum.

Ike

i just signed up to ask a question about the abilities and limitations of skype, but then i was denied the creation of a thread.

i agree that the message MUST be changed to notify the user of the dilemma. further, i have been to many forums with a post requirement before various permissions are received, and the forums that don't have full-time admins are overflowing with meaningless drivel.