I used to advertise my business here but now I am unable to create threads. What is up with that? did I miss something?
Well their are many threads created on same issue! Just read here : https://forums.digitalpoint.com/help/established It will gives you an idea why you're not able to make posts in BST section! You must have at least 3 likes form different established members! So now your first task is make some quality posts and help members, you'll get Likes if your posts have quality. Best luck for that.
Well if you Reps in old framework (Refer vBulletin ) than those will carried out in new system but if you don't have any than you have to start do this things! Even members who have more than 1000 posts or member here since many years have same thing! So just make quality posts and get likes and start business! However you can still do business by sending Personal message at the moment.
Take the premium membership and then you can create the Thread in BST section else, you should have 3 likes received.
Ridiculous? Ridiculous is people who haven't been able to get rep and been here for 1-2 years and/or have a lot of posts. A much better system now - just a few quality posts are required rather than xx junk ones that people hope the mods miss/no one reports. As you never got any rep before (or it would have been converted into likes), nothing was wiped out, really.
It is a good system that has been implemented that prevents a lot of spammy posts. This forum has been the best and will remain the best for all times to come. With the emphasis now being on quality posts all members will benefit with better knowledge and information.