There are many other ways people could view new threads without going through the forumdisplay.php

I will not modify this hack so that it fixes all of those, because there isn't a high enough demand for this hack - if there were more people who wanted it, then I would do it. But, this is not the case at the moment, sorry.

Thanx Gary! (I think you made this hack after my request??) :) Is there a way to integrate this with showthread.php? that way people can't just link their friends to the specific thread. thnx a million :)

One idea: Why not instead of letting users know they do not have enough posts, make it so that the forum is invisible until they have enough posts? This may cut down on the spam, and let users who are truly active enjoy the benefits of secret forums?

Confused by the description. If the forum is set to one post per day, then how many days would a member have to be posting at that rate to get in?

It doesn't matter how long the user has been a member for ;)