Pending Approval

The Pending Approval system at The Sonic 2 Beta Page (formerly Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta) is used to filter out people unwilling to "play nice" on the S2B message boards.

It works by setting new registered users a 30-post limit (upgraded from 20) in order to prove they can be functional members of the S2B board and community. This stage is known as "Trial Membership". When this 30-post limit is reached, the user's account is locked to prevent further posting, and the account is put into the "Pending Approval" usergroup. The administrators (LocalH, Hivebrain and Tweaker) can then judge whether or not to bestow full membership on the user. If for whatever reason the user is "rejected", then that account stays in "Pending Approval" indefinitely.

Those in the "Trial Membership" usergroup have nearly the same rights as full members; they can read, post replies and make new threads in all the subforums, aside from Sonic Programming and the Tech Members' Lounge. Pending Approval members only have read-access to the 'bare bones' of S2B - the "Administration" subforum, as well as the "General Sonic Games", "Engineering & Reverse Engineering" and "Archives" subforums - basically the same as a guest.