Translations:User groups/64/en

(Auto)confirmed users (those in the "$confirmed" and "$autoconfirmed" group) are users who can bypass certain restrictions set on new accounts such as CAPTCHAs and can edit pages protected against non-(auto)confirmed users. This is done to prevent spam. By default, users are automatically promoted to $autoconfirmed after their account reaches 4 days of existence and 10 edits have been made. If you don't wish to wait that long, you can forcefully promote a user to $confirmed to allow them to bypass CAPTCHAs and edit semi-protected pages without meeting the threshold for automatic promotion to autoconfirmed.