While we welcome new-commers, understand that we also suffer from trolls and gremlins who are malicious posters trying to provoke.
A suggestion to assist your bona-fides would be to populate your personal page so that the rest of us get a chance to know you. It also gives us some assurance that you are not a ‘troll’.
The personal page is free-form and you can click on other FReeper’s ID to see theirs and get ideas.
“I felt compelled to log-up”
I found that statement to be strange.
Doesn’t mean much though.
I like my page best. ;-/