New Members Only Forum?

[djsydeburnz]

is there a hack around that will limit the people that can view a forum by number of posts?

for instance, some of my more seasoned forum members can be a bit cold to new members and can scare away the newbies. i would like it if they had a place to call their own while they got familiar with my site.

[amykhar]

This can be done with the built in promotions system. Simply create a new usergroup for new people, and promote them out of it once their posts exceed a certain number or their time period exceeds the time limit.

Once promoted out, they can't see the forum for newbies.

[djsydeburnz]

hate to ask this and sound like a newbie. just need to know:

how to set the 'new members' group as the default group to join upon registration
how to move members from 'registered users' that are under my 500 post

thanks in advance.

[amykhar]

Make a new group for your older members. Note the usergroup number.
Run this query:

UPDATE user set usergroupid=x WHERE posts > 500;

Then, set up your promotion to bump people out of registered users to this new group once they have 500 posts.

Amy

[djsydeburnz]

An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.
error number: 1146
error desc: Table 'forum.user' doesn't exist

[amykhar]

An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.
error number: 1146
error desc: Table 'forum.user' doesn't exist
If you are using a table prefix, you need to put that in.