User that has posted or commented a couple times, but not been given a stamp-of-approval by moderators which means we don’t have to pay special attention to them anymore.
Until a user has been approved, moderators at least glance at every comment and post they make.
What’s a “new user”? It seems like this category matters for moderation but I don’t see a definition of it. (Maybe you’re hoping to come up with one?)
There’s maybe two tiers of new user:
User that has never posted or commented before
User that has posted or commented a couple times, but not been given a stamp-of-approval by moderators which means we don’t have to pay special attention to them anymore.
Until a user has been approved, moderators at least glance at every comment and post they make.