Who determines who is worthy of viewing or attending the meet and greets?
For lack of a better idea, we do it automatically based on how many posts you've made.
The idea here is to give us a chance to weed out new members who are likely to cause a problem -- e.g., they're only here to promote their business, or they're looking for recruits for their white-separatist militia, or they're stalking some particular forum member, or whatever.
Unfortunately, that means that some members who have been here a long time, but just don't have much to say, don't have access to some of the boards. But that's why we've set the postcount limit to
[A TOP-SECRET BUT VERY SMALL NUMBER THAT YOU HAPPEN TO BE VERY CLOSE TO].
