I posted this at the Joomla support forums, but their forums are completely useless. Hopefully there are some Joomla users here that may be able to help me out on this...

On my Joomla site I have over 1100 members. At the moment they are all set to the "registered group". The registered group can basically just see content, not submit or anything else.

On my site I would like the members to be able to submit Articles(like the Author usergroup), and their articles to NOT require approval by an administrator.

It would take too long to change each member's group to "Author", so how can I give the "Registered" usergroup the same permissions as the "Author" usergroup, as well as turning off the approval of new articles?

I hope someone here knows what im talking about.

Thanks,
Mark.