You are willfully ignoring my point. If enough people had been using your feature when I joined hubski, ten, a hundred, whatever, then I likely would not have stayed because the conversations would have struck me as nonexistent or very limited. Don't remember/no clue. Probably 2-3 days, which is easily long enough. Six hours is long enough if you're intelligent. Do you have anything to say about this as an alternative?So riddle me this, batman. What was your first post? And how long had you been here when you made it?
If it comes to something like this, I think I prefer the up-front approach I mentioned below of alerting new users that they aren't allowed to post for a few days (or maybe until they do their first hubwheel thingie). Essentially forcing them to lurk a bit and learn what sort of content we encourage at hubski -- but not in an underhanded way.