The forum in general has had a bit of a change of heart about bumping old topics. Good practice for institutional knowledge retention and ease of search-ability of that knowledge base has leaned toward reducing redundancy. As such, your post is directly related to the original topic and kudos for finding this topic.
Indeed they have and the idea of sand-boxing new users in a certain category(s) might be useful.
I believe AND (caveat: I don’t know)
in other words, all conditions would have to be met. I am guessing however and others correct me if I am in error
this question I can only answer by guessing you have administrative rights on the forum in question. The trust levels and the requirements can be tweaked ad nauseam with administrative access to the setting