anyway to get this working on 3.8? Would love to be able to set new users to automatically go into the 3 groups i have to put them in manually at the moment. Is there anyway to specify which group is primary and which groups are additional when you add several groups for them to join? Thanks :) Hope to see this on 3.8 :-D

I think this mod is perfect for a security improvement you can do in VB (inpired from vbseo forum)
Set a temporary usergrup for registrations that has limited capabilities (just posting and reading, no bb code, file upload ... ) and make a promotion scheme to move users to default registered usergroup in vb with normal wrights after they have 10 messages (for example)
This way you prevent any spammer/ possible hacker to open doors in vb.
Is highly unprobable a hacker will have time to post 10 messages you will not delete so he can hack you.

Tagged for now as I am still setting up my forum :)

If you have yet to setup your forum you can set it up like that without this mod... just make registered users a limited permissions group and promote everyone to a new group after 10 posts.

EXACTLY, don't understand why people work so hard against the system.

As they say, different people, different tastes/likings :)

I see use for this mod for people with established boards who don't want to bother running sql queries to change hundreds or thousands (or more) usergroups than go to promotions system like this... In those cases I could definitely see use for this mod, I tagged it way back when.

What queries do you have to run?

Setup the promotion, and run the promotion cron, it'll fix all of the users. No queries.

Never thought of that. :o

I'm a noob to vB and although I understand there's a learning curve, I have a total of 30 sites to look after (over and above the site I'm adding vB to) . Spending time searching through oddles of docs, posts and what not to find a "howto" - I simply don't have enough hours in the day.

Don't laugh but I wasted 5 hours at the .com forum the other day trying to figure out how to add _blank to the vB link. So when I find a plug in that will do what I want and can add in 5 min or less it's likely I'll go for that option every time.



Cheers

Dave

I understand your reasoning but if it took you 5 hours to add target="_blank" to the phrase that controls the link back to vbulletin.com maybe you should accept that you may not know the best way to proceed at the moment. Just because the mod path may be easier right now it's many times better in the long term to use built in features rather than mods whenever possible. If you ever run into trouble where you need official support all mods will need to be disabled before anyone at vbulletin will even look at your setup... Plus mods can introduce other bugs and there's no guarantee a future vb upgrade won't break a mod- then what would you do? As an admin you need to look long term, big picture stuff.