Denied New Members should Be to Contact Staff

There is also a contact page, not sure if you need 25 posts or not to use that.

https://nulledbb.com/contact

This might be a prevention for bots/spammers to create an account and spam the PM system, including staff. I mean, I understand where you are coming from but I think that is why the contact page exists. Instead of trying to seperate permissions to make the 25 post count rule apply and not.