yes, ads and offers section mostly requires approval of threads. this is to prevent spam adverts and spammers having a gala time.
Also, there are certain restrictions in place primarily to deter spammers and those members who post junk things just to bypass the private message limit. What happens is, once they cross the number of posts required for private messages, they start spamming other members.
So, right after @balakmu mentioned about the restriction, i went and changed the values. Now sending a private message or links/images need a decent number of posts.
Otherwise this place would be run over by spammers before we know it
