New Forum Software means new rules. I have ditched vbulletin in favor of Xenforo on december 5, 2023. As such, Registered users will need at least 10 posts AND a reaction score of at least 5 to be promoted to the Members group. So now, only users that post content that their peers approve of will be bumped up into the Member group.
Users in the registered group are restricted in they cannot upload attachments, avatars, background pictures, use signatures etc. Getting promoted to Member removes many of these restrictions.
Users in the registered group must use 2FA, this restriction is removed once promoted to Member, this should in theory help to block more spammers.
Also I would like to note that posting to subforums which contains cheats are disabled for the current usergroups due to that area being restricted to posting cheats only. So, you may still browse those threads & leave reactions on said threads. With Xenforo 2.3 coming up, there will be anchors wherever headers are posted (typically near the top of those posts).
If you have any issues, you may use those anchors & post a thread about a issue with a cheat in the parent forum. Example of an anchor:
That was copy/pasted from this thread.
So if you have any issues, once xenforo 2.3 comes out, the anchor above will look similar:
Code:
#-dracula-x-rondo-of-blood-play-as-maria
You'll be able to use the full url with the above anchor in the url: Since the parent forum for this game is Playstation portable, you would for example take that link and make a new thread here:
As for usergroups that will have permission to post threads/comments in cheat forums, I haven't made any decision on if I will or want to do that yet.