Previously, these sections could be read by all but only moderators and admins could post to them. On consideration I think that these restrictions were a little extreme, particularly in view of the high quality of our forum membership.
It now works like this in both forums:
- Announcements and Sticky messages can still only be posted by moderators and admins. (These both always move to the top of the list, and announcements have a higher priority than sticky messages.)
- Everyone can reply to any kind of messages in these sections, so that forum members can comment on announcements or tutorials.
- Everyone can now add normal postings. This makes it possible for forum members to post their own announcements and tutorials.
Basically, Tips & Tricks is for quick fixes and clever hacks, Tutorials & Guides is for longer tutorials. There will obviously be some overlap in the grey zone, but I think that everyone will pretty much know the difference.
