A month or two ago, there were some accounts with zero finds that started spamming the forums, but they had been created months earlier. There are some cachers who sign up but don't log their first find for weeks or only log 1 or 2 finds their first few times going out. There are others that find 100 their first couple weeks. I'm not sure what criteria would be used to be considered "new."
"New" could be defined as signed up in the last week or someone with less than 10 finds. (Or whatever limits Groundspeak thinks make the most sense.) Numbers aside, I was just kind of thinking of some sort of "trial" period where they don't have full capabilities to abuse the system. The bottom line is that we don't want to make things any more difficult for the rest of us "trusted" users every time we enter a log.
I know everyone is trying to think of rare cases where these limits might impact someone, but the fact is that the system right now is wide open for major abuse -- as evidenced by the 3000+ bogus logs added just today to caches all over NH.
