My guess would be that the permission setting was applied to the "Member" usergroup which is not the same as a regular member; i.e. in the profile summary, a normal member's position would be something like "Deku", but anyone with access to the Spam forum would be a "Member". Because of this and the fact that outpouring of awards surfaced itself in the Spam board most if not exclusively, I can assume that the two are related. Meh, there are a lot of permission flaws; well there are checkboxes that should be checked or unchecked.
