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Originally Posted by crispus

But I'm pretty sure there's some newbie restriction before one can "post urls": this, however, as I've pointed out before, is to prevent spamming, and refers only to hot-linking - you can post a partial url, i.e. without the https://www. portion, from day one

You could well be right Crispus. Admin may of put that in as a way of combatting spam.