Authors have to request a Premium forum, as they have to spend time there as well ;)

I thought the forum was for paid hacks for a second. Premium is a misleading term I think but overall it looks good.

Actually I thought something more along those lines at first as well.

In the end, it's only if they want to offer support here.

This is a great idea, glad it went ahead.

yeah i thought premium meant payment = maybe it needs renaming or something as it is confusing.

Also good idea on the new section as well :)

How does Premium mean Paid? :) Premium just means special, not commercial.

I added this to the first post:

AddOn authors will go into a special usergroup which allows them access to a private Premium AddOn Staff Discussion forum. They will also become moderators of their own AddOn subforum and will be able to delete posts, as well as close and manage threads.

I also made it clear that Premium AddOns are Large AddOns hosted here, not Paid ones - they are still free.

I'm happy this came to be :)

very nice idea:D

most excellent idea. i think you should change Premium to Unleaded. j/k