# New to Community and Can't Post or Reply?

**URL:** <https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/new-to-community-and-cant-post-or-reply/991>\
**Category:** First Cook Essentials\
**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/new-to-community-and-cant-post-or-reply/991 "2016-11-03T23:48:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![HunterC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/hunterc/32/878_2.png) [@HunterC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/HunterC)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/new-to-community-and-cant-post-or-reply/991/1 "2016-11-03T23:48:37Z")

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Welcome to the Community Site! I’m stoked you are here. The reason you cannot immediately post is so that the site can stay spam free. But fear not! All you have to do is click on 2 other articles and then you are ready to go!

You can always private message me if you are having any issues 😄

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**Author:** ![HunterC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/hunterc/32/878_2.png) [@HunterC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/HunterC)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/new-to-community-and-cant-post-or-reply/991/2 "2016-11-03T23:48:47Z")

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**Author:** ![HunterC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/hunterc/32/878_2.png) [@HunterC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/HunterC)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/new-to-community-and-cant-post-or-reply/991/3 "2016-11-03T23:49:05Z")

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**Author:** ![HunterC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/hunterc/32/878_2.png) [@HunterC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/HunterC)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/new-to-community-and-cant-post-or-reply/991/4 "2016-11-03T23:50:02Z")

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**Author:** ![john.jcb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/john.jcb/32/7269_2.png) [@john.jcb](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/john.jcb)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/new-to-community-and-cant-post-or-reply/991/5 "2016-11-04T22:44:16Z")

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This is great I hope it stops the spammers. They are persistent.