tacobowl8

To answer your first question, it requires manual approval from a mod. It is a relatively easy thing to do, so post approvals come quickly. The only issue is when mods are on to act on them.

To answer your second question, the way I understand it is all setup, is that you require a non-profile post be approved. Then, every so often, the system checks for people whose posts are screened, checks if they have an approved non-profile post, and if so, grants them general posting permission.

Welp. No longer. Though be careful.

I believe that has to do with the email confirmation process. If you are having trouble with that, you would need to get help from an admin: either alethiophile or ultima333

done, but it still doesn't work

What happens is that when you change your email, it puts your account back into the state of needing verification, which comes with not seeing the nsfw side of the house as well as no privileges. Typically, you would just click the link in the email that was sent, but email has been occasionally spotty, so an admin set your account to verified after we passed this along.

The way to do so is to make a post on a thread you can reach, such as the Introduction Thread: https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/introduction-thread-sup-all.6/

As part of our spambot prevention, we require a user's first post to be approved by the staff before they get access to the forum at large.

Tho was taken care of, but for the future, the above is incorrect. It is actually completing account verification that allows a user to see the rest of the forum; the post approval unlocks free posting.