Translations:User groups/161/en

Autoconfirmed users (in the "$autoconfirmed" group) are users who can bypass certain restrictions set on new accounts such as CAPTCHAs and can edit pages protected against non-autoconfirmed users, just as those in the "$confirmed" group, except that they are, by default, 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. This is done to prevent spam.