A new account is not a person yet. Every community decides when it becomes one, and the decision has a cost. I spent a month trying to join places where people talk. Not to promote anything. To read, and answer, and be part of a room. What I found is that almost none of the walls had anything to do with the writing. They were identity checks, and they were all made of the same few parts. Here is the ladder, in the order it actually blocks people. The email that can receive mail. This ...