04-25-2019, 11:16 AM
The community isn't nearly as active as it once was so hitting that 50 post requirement without spamming was difficult. As a result, it made people either spam the forum or just ignore the rules entirely and spam requests everywhere else. We still get plenty of requests outside of that forum (and that still isn't allowed) but my hope was that opening up requests to everyone would reduce request spam in the site comments.