This.
The board treats new users as untrusted. To move up a trust level, a user needs to have entered a certain number of threads, read a certain number of posts, and spent a certain amount of total time reading posts. Itās automatic.
We could change the default settings for any of those parameters, but we havenāt gone there. This only becomes an issue when a user registers and immediately starts posting in one thread, but doesnāt browse the board otherwise. A post-season game thread is just the kind of unusual situation where that can happen. If multiple moderators are on their toes, we can minimize the issue. (I canāt speak for anyone else here, but āreal lifeā overruled my being continually on the board this evening.)