Guys,

Im sorry if this has already been asked or is listed somewhere.

I am wondering if this Invite System will work in a way that when a member sends someone an invite that it still requires there registration to be preaproved by an admin or moderator of the board?

Reason I ask this is because as an admin I still would like to have a say so on who my members are letting into the site and prescreen them possibly by forcing them to answer questions in the registration form or converse with me through either a private message system or through direct email.

I need some control over my members just shooting out invites to just anyone that asks them for one.

Thanks

Doug

Use that.

I just enable "Moderate New Members" in AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> User Registration options. This "allows you to validate new members before they are classified as registered members and are allowed to post." And it works fine with the Invites system!

Here how it currently works: Person gets invite, registers, validates email. Mod is notified and must approve new member... at which point a 2nd email goes out and lets the new person know he's in. Then (and only then) can s/he see forums and post.

Ideally I'd have liked for an option for Invites to be filtered through mods first; so they can allow or disapprove certain invites as needed. This was asked for above, and unfortunately Psionic Vision said he wasn't interested in implementing that. Maybe for the commercial version, P.V.?

In the absence of that, I still would like to prevent already-banned folks from getting new invites. (Perhaps with a "veto list" of email or IP addresses.) Some members try and re-invite in folks I've already been forced to exclude, and it causes an unecessary cycle of resentment.

In the meantimt though, just wanted to reiterate, vB's built-in User Moderation works well alongside Psionic Vision's Invite System.

Nope, it is not supposed to work fine. It is supposed to bypass any moderation unless a specific usergroup is specified in options. If moderation is not bypassed - let me know.

I have no specific usergroup specified in options. ("Initial Usergroup for Invited Users" is blank.)

And yet, when an invite is issued and accepted, the new member is placed first in the "Awaiting Email Confirmation" group. And once they validate their email they move to the "Awaiting Moderation" queue. At which point a mod can approve them in. I'd always thought it was operating as expected, and I appreciated it. Why would anyone want these preferences bypassed?

They'd want it bypassed cause the member was invited and should thus be a "honor member", essp. on a board wth closed registration. But anyway, shall I keep it as is?

I, for one, would appreciate it being kept as is. Keep in mind not all of us have the same goals for our forums... the one I'm discussing is intentionally small. (Sounds like me and dcpaq2 are on the same page on this one.) My forum isn't about thousands of eyeballs and advertising dollars; it's more about a small, quality membership of friends and friends of friends.

I feel it should be left up to the moderator to decide if an "invite trumps all" on their forum. The inability to moderate invites before they go out is one issue, and the inability to prevent invites from going to known troublemakers is yet another. But we've already discussed those issues.

Allowing invites to completely bypass the email verification and user moderation would make this a much less useful add-on, at least for me. Choice and control is always good. I'm able to work with this hack in it's current state, but if I had to forgo user moderation in future versions, I'd probably skip the upgrade or stop using the Invite System entirely.

Does this mod work with v3.5.4

thanks

Yes.

Is it possible to reset the system so I can run multiple contests?

I want to get setup so I can run a contest every other month. I plan on using the referral system/invites for the contest. The person with the most referrals wins.

Any thoughts?