Member

Members are the staple feature of any forum; other than Yellowhairedguy20, every user of DBZF started off as a member. As the historian Pete Santaspha, 1964-2003, stated;

"The members of today are the staff and elite members of tomorrow"

Ahh Santaspha, prior to your drug-fuelled sex heart-attack, you were the voice of your generation.

Post Count Ascension
On DBZF we have a post count ascension for our members, or rather our Validating Members as this is what everyone that joins the site starts off as. As soon as a person in this group makes a single post, they become a New Member. The benefits to this are that New Members can view areas of the site previously hidden to them, amongst others, helping us keep people that join to take advantage of some of our services to a minumum.

From here, New Members share similar features with regular Members, and once they reach 25 posts they are again promoted. The benefits of this are many; for starters, you're no longer a forum n00b, and you can now make a graphic request. However, it is obviously regarded as suspicious if a member with 26 posts, and no-one is obliged to fulfill these requests anyway, so don't count on an insidious plan to get a free graphic working. ;)

As a member, you are now the heart of the forum; with the Parliament, staff and Elite Membership to aspire to, which path will you choose?