Just a background on the 25 post to PM reasoning.

At one point in this forum's life, we had more private messages than actual posts. Many of the active members were inundated with private messages asking about ketosticks, induction rules, etc.

The amount of PM responses we were doing, actual took a lot of time, and prevented us from even answering public posts.

For this reason, we decided to only allow using private messages for those who already are active members, and have participated in the discussion.

It does have disadvantages, but the advantages outweight them. Itt encourages new members to ask questions, introduce themselves and let all of us get to know them. And once they are part of the community, they will have access to the PM.

Wa'il