This gives you all the info you need: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/770609/member-or-new-member-everything-you-need-to-know#latest
If you are a new member, you can't start a new thread. This was a recent change due to some massive spam bot attacks.
You have to be a full member.
Engage in some existing ones first to level up, then you can open your own.
Thats actually the stupidest thing ever.
The requirements for becoming a full member have been decreased now! 🙂
And if you do not like it, you're free to post in the forums here whenever you like!
To my knowledge, they had serious problems with bots/spammers bloating the forum, and the moderators could not keep up, so they had to do this. Too bad though 🤨
I suppose they needed these measures since it's a forum for "adoring fans" of the game, so criticism will get flagged
