Who are Trusted Members?

Certain forum permissions (post and start topic) can be granted to trusted forum members only.  There are two ways for a forum member to become trusted:

1. The forum owner explicity configures the member as trusted.
2. The member has posted a given number of times in the forum and the forum owner has approved those posts for display.
   
    

The main reason for using the Trusted Members Features is when you have a publicly available forum and want to filter out spammers and other undesirable posters.  Private forums where you limit membership likely do not require this feature.

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To explicitly trust an individual forum member, got to Manage My Forums and click the Members Icon as shown here.

 Once in the Forum Member List, check the Trust Box for each member you wish to trust.







 

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To trust a member based on number of posts, you will need to configure the forum's permissions and set the number of posts required before a member is trusted as shown below.

If you select "Trusted Forum Members Only" for who may post, then only trusted members will be allowed to post.

If you also check the box "Require approval..." then non-trusted members will be allowed to post, but those posts will not be shown to anyone except the forum owner and forum moderators.  These posts must first be approved by either the forum owner or moderator before they will be shown to any other forum members.

If, after a certain number of approved posts, you would like to automatically trust the poster, then you can select the number of posts in the "approved posts" box.  After the member has posted that number of posts and had those posts approved, he/she will be considered trusted and will no longer require his/her posts to be pre-approved.

If you set the number of posts to zero, then members will never be trusted based on posts.  The only way a member can be trusted is if you explicitly trust them as explained in the previous post above.

The "Require Approval..." option has no effect on "New Topics."  If set for "Trusted Only," non-trusted members are never allowed to start new topics.

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What does checking the Mod box do?

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Hi Dancing Pen,

The Mod box will give that user moderator privelages, meaning that they will be able to perform many of the actions usually reserved for the forum owner only.

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