I also thought that the post requirement was high initially but I got to it in no time. However I understand the limit of the post as it is to protect the community. It is good to know that you can trade with people who you can trust within a community.
But you have raised a good point that the section has not been that much active recently but that is more due to other factors such as users not signing in anymore or People like me not upgrading parts that often. Maybe the post count can be reduced to 100 but no lower.
Just visiting daily see if there is any post that you can comment on that has an interest to you should get your post count up.
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