User blog comment:FishTank/Introducing Vanguard, Wikia's Newest Volunteer Team/@comment-26408193-20160815222800/@comment-24258073-20160816055833

The only differences - however big these differences are - between a regular user and Vanguard, regarding their user rights is that Vanguards are able to edit the user interface (white-listed MediaWiki pages, including CSS and Java Script pages), and edit pages that have been fully protected. They are also exempt from the dialog that other users get when they edit a wiki for the first time, since this dialog thing was introduced to Wikia.