There are different levels of access to the forums, these are separate from the privilege levels of the main site and are assigned independently.

The roles are as follow:

• Keymaster – Can create, edit and delete other users’ forums, topics and replies. Can manage Tags, and moderate a forum with the moderation tools. Has access to global forum settings, tools, and importer.
• Moderator – Can create, edit and delete other users’ topics and replies. Can manage Tags, and moderate a forum with the moderation tools.
• Participant – Can create and edit their own topics and replies, can’t view private forums (auto assigned to new users)
• Spectator – Can only read topics and replies, cannot view private forums
• Blocked – All capabilities are explicitly blocked.

By default users are assigned the ‘Participant’ role.