automatic suspension of posting

[carolmyt]

My site wants to institute a Rules of Conduct, and our plan is to post it in a thread, and then require members to post to that thread as means of acknowledgement. What I'm looking for is a way to automatically suspend posting for all members who don't post to the thread within a certain period of time. Is there any way I can do that?

[tnguy3n]

very interesting idea.

[poolking]

I reckon you could run SQL queries to do that.

[carolmyt]

Can you elaborate? I'm brand-spankin' new to SQL, and have an abnormal fear of breaking things, ;).

I was a klutzy child.

[tnguy3n]

maybe some sql genius out there may be able to do it without code-hacking, but if i make this mod, i'd use codehack since i'm more comfortable with it.
you can add one column named reqthread (say 0 for unread, 1 for read), then use vb cronjob to suspend posting privilege of those who didn't read the required thread.

[carolmyt]

tnguy,

Can you elaborate (or else explain it as if to a toddler,lol). Also, is what you're envisioning good for reading the thread, or can it also be made specific to having to POST to the thread?

[darnoldy]

Is there any way I can do that?

There are probably several ways--some more work than others.

How many members are you talking about? Do you want to do this one time, or for every new member forward? How many new members a week are you expecting? What is you comfort level with modifying the guts of your forum? What is your tolerance level for tedious manual tasks?

--don

[carolmyt]

Ok, hmm, lots of questions.

We have just reopened after a brief shutdown in which we dumped everything. Members are just trickling back in, we've got about 50 right now, and at our busiest before we shutdown we had at least a few hundred members. Right now we're getting about 10 new members a day, but I expect that to trickle down to maybe one or two a day. This is something I'd like to be permanently incorporated for all new members forward.

Define 'guts of your forum'. ;)

My tolerance level for tedious manual tasks is above average, but not saint-like. At this point, I'm envisioning my only option as having to suspend posting member by member, and I'd like something less tedious than that.

[Paul M]

I'm curious as to why you want to do this ?

How do you want to do it - move them to a custom usergroup, or the standard "banned" group.

[carolmyt]

I want to do this because I want all members to read an acknowledge a standard rules of conduct. We've had some problems in the past, and we're hoping to make this a preemptive strike.

Ultimately, I'd want to put them in a usergroup that was restricted solely to that thread until they posted to it.