We had a lot of work, I mean really a lot of work with flame wars and FUD and trolls in that topic. And it were new folks for the most part (next to the great new ones that came in). Spending >75% of the mod-time on 1 topic is not good. Especially when the troublemakers just want to talk price without giving that much about the rest of the project. As we couldn’t limit just 1 topic to a certain trust level we created this solution. The old topic is closed because we wanted to make the new rules clear in the OP as well.
Not even that long, as a new member you can talk everything and anything except for the MAID price. But after 15 days of membership and taking part in some discussion in other topics you should be good.