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Originally Posted by visionaut

FWIW, the reason there’s not a fixed number of posts is because you need to make posts that are seen by and verified-as-not-spam by several existing users. Sometimes that takes just a few, sometimes more.

Existing verified users see a dialog next to new user’s posts asking them to do this. So enough users need to say ‘yep, not a bot or spammer’.

Thanks for this explanation visionaut - it's the only one that actually makes sense!