Min Post Count to Post in Forum

[Yvgeniy]

I looked around briefly, but didn't seem to find this simple hack. Basically what I'm looking for is the ability to set a minimum post count in order to post in a specific forum. For example, I have a Contests forum where only the people that have 10 posts and above should be able to post. vBulletin doesn't have this option by default. Did I miss this hack somehow and it DOES exist? If not, would anyone be willing to make this?

[Princeton]

this is gonna sound complicated but it will give you an idea of what to look for (or ask)

You can create a new usergroup (USERGROUP B) and posting permissions to YES. While other usergroups (USERGROUP A) you set the posting permissions to NO.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/usergroups

you can then create a PROMOTION .. to promote any users in USERGROUP A to USERGROUP B if postcount >= xxx

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/usergroup_promotions

[Xplorer4x4]

I cant look for it at the moment but there was such a hack for 3.5 which may work for 3.6.

[Yvgeniy]

this is gonna sound complicated but it will give you an idea of what to look for (or ask)

You can create a new usergroup (USERGROUP B) and posting permissions to YES. While other usergroups (USERGROUP A) you set the posting permissions to NO.

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/usergroups

you can then create a PROMOTION .. to promote any users in USERGROUP A to USERGROUP B if postcount >= xxx

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/usergroup_promotions

Hm... this makes sense. Only the problem is that I would need to create a new user group just to get that to work. It's kind of inefficient in my opinion and wouldn't work with the user group system that I have setup (though maybe). Thanks anyway.