I'm trying to setup a forum on a public facing site, and I'm trying to understand the role and forum behavior configuration.  I'm looking for a pretty basic setup such that the forums well be visible to any unauthenticated user that may visit.  I want only registered users to be able to start/reply to threads, and I do NOT want to have to moderate and approve each post for 99% of people, and I don't want the message "Since you have posted to a moderated forum you must wait for approval" to appear.  I can foresee, however, that there might be a select few abusive users that will need to be moderated for various reasons, but that I don't want to fully block from posting and/or remove their account all together.

My question is, should I create an auto role called something like "Forum users" that all reg'd users will be assigned to and uncheck the "Requires Moderation" box within forum config?  Then, if a user must be moderated in the forums I can pull their ID from the forum users role and assign to another role (i.e. Moderated Forum Users) which will have the "requires moderation" box checked?

Am I making this WAY more complicated than it needs to be?  Any guidance is very much appreciated.
Thanks
Andy

I think I have the same problem - I want to ban a single user and don't want to have to edit the perms for every single forum. The Trust User checkbox for this person is greyed out.

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