For this reason, I actually think such posts should be allowed. A PM limit for new accounts makes sense to limit spam, but it’s not spamming to want to access the projects here, and I don’t think that folks should need to meet a threshold of participation in order to do so (particularly as long time members make such posts anyway). When I signed up for this forum more than 12 years ago (god), it was all in order to do just that; I didn’t even have the skills to provide much of anything of my own. I just don’t think that “disappearing without participating further” is all that bad. It’s probably the standard for any site on the internet and being too strict with new users risks turning off those who actually might stick around.