Is there any way to make promotion impossible for tl0? I want anonymous users to be able to read a particular category, and specific logged-in group members (“contributors”) to be able to post, reply etc. I have this working already.
I now want to give anonymous readers without an account the option to sign up, but I want to restrict them to tl0 unless I manually promote them. That way they can get notifications etc, but can’t post/reply etc.
I am setting the default tl for invited users to tl1, but I can’t figure out how to prevent tl0 getting automatically promoted to tl1. I guess I could set “tl1 requires topics entered”, “tl1 requires read posts” and “tl1 requires time spent” to some ridiculously big number, but it seems a little inelegant, is there a better way I’m missing?