New user limits are annoyingly restrictive

Hello and welcome @YaLTeR,
you should be able to do more than that once you’ve reached trust level 1. Although the limits are annoying at a first glance, I believe they are necessary to prevent spam.

For your particular case, I think it would be possible to merge all three screenshots into a single image? You can do that using Paint if you are using Windows, or any other editing software.

I believe if you use the “reply” functionality, there should be no automatic quoting. Did you perhaps click on “quote”? I agree with your sentiment about the number of links restriction being unfair, as you did not use more than 1 link.

You can easily reach TL1 by:

Get to trust level 1 by…

  • Entering at least 5 topics
  • Reading at least 30 posts
  • Spend a total of 10 minutes reading posts