new user restrictions are too much

[managr]

I totally understand manually approving new posts. That's a reasonable anti-spam measure.
But why do that AND also restrict external links on top? If you're manually approving posts, you can see if the links are spam or not.

Another thing that I noticed is that as a new user I can't send a PM to an admin/mod. I just wanted to report a bug, but I can't.