limiting posting

[jndeakin]

I can't see how this could be done as standard. But if anyone knows different, or can point me to a ready-made hack I'd appreciate it!

Our forum got swamped with a spate of silly games recently, we stopped them, but it wouldn't be a problem if we could have a subforum where users can only post a limited number of times on any one thread each day. Either by a flat limit, or a minimum time between posts for example. We probably wouldn't want the posts to count towards post totals either.

Any pointers greatly appreciated :)

Jim Deakin

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Maybe you can use my Thread limiting hack. Check the link in my signature.

[jndeakin]

If I read that right, it stops a user initiating more than x threads in a forum, but doesn't stop them posting any number of times on the thread once it's started? That's just about the opposite of what we'd like. Ideally a user could start any number of threads (if they overdid that we'd just ban them), but we want to force a delay between posts on any one thread, to stop flooding.

Thanks for the quick answer anyway

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Well i think you can easily twist the hack a bit to do what you want. If you can not do it yourself, i will have a look myself, but can't make any promisses on time, since some family problems have a bit of priority over vB atm.

[Don Z.]

Sorry to reactivate this issue after so long. :nervous:

Was anyone able to find a way to limit posts per day? This is a feature I really need. I'd rather not use the time between posts setting since I just want to set a cap of say 5 posts a day posted at any time.

Is there a hack for this or is the setting maybe included in the newer versions (I'm running 3.0.0)?

Thanks, Don

[Marco van Herwaarden]

And what you would call 'a day'? On the internet people live in many different timezones.

[Don Z.]

And what you would call 'a day'? On the internet people live in many different timezones.How about the calendar date for that user since everyone sets their own time zone?

I'm not a programmer and can't get too deep in the code but this seems like a logical and needed feature for boards like mine. vBulletin has every other option under the sun, why not this one?