Limit Posts Per Day

[Don Z.]

Hi Everyone,

What I really need is a way to limit the number of posts per day per member (across all forums). My low volume forum can get buried by someone posting 50 messages before I notice. It would be nice to set some kind of cap.

The time between posts restriction doesn't work in this case since I don't want to stop people from posting multiple messages in one sitting.

Is there a way to install this feature? I'm running 3.0.0 now but will soon be upgrading to 3.5.

Thanks, Don

[Chris M]

In theory, you could alter newthread and newreply to check that a a user's posts does not exceed an individual daily limit, e.g.
if ($vbulletin->userinfo[poststoday] > $vbulletin->userinfo[dailylimit]) {
or a global limit, e.g.
if ($vbulletin->userinfo[poststoday] > $vbulletin->options[dailylimit]) {
You could then complete the "if" statement with code to lock them out of being able to post :)

You would obviously have to generate the "poststoday" field, and basically get a query to select all the posts that have been made in the last 24 hours by the user :)

Looking at it it is fairly simple to do, and shouldn't be much effort on your part to create something to do this :)

Satan