Lowering Post Count & Restricting Forums

[Huscarl]

How do I lower my own post count (as the Founding Administrator)?

Also, how do I allow certain members to view select forums, without them being Administrators or Moderators?

This is so complicated..

[Guest]

First answer is you can lower it to 0 and only zero

Second answer

You have to put thise people you want to view the forums in a group then set the view permissions of the forum to groups

[Huscarl]

Thank you, but HOW do I go about lowering my post count?

As for my second question:

I want this group to have less permissions than a normal member, but when I try to restrict this group to normal areas, it will not let me unless I restrict regular members as well. Can I at least make an area exclusive to this group, yet they can not access normal areas, or do I have to make a whole other forum? I have seen these restrictions put in place on other types of forums..