Posting in specific forums you specify deducts or adds to post count
 

Posting in specific forums you specify deducts or adds to post count

This is a fairly simple hack, but it can be useful for certain forums. :) Feel free to expand or modify this to suit your forums.


How to use:

1) If you have a spam forum, you may want to deduct 1 from the post count each time a member posts there.
2) If you have a special forum, you may want to add more than 1 to the post count each time a member posts there.
3) Any combination of the above.


Installation:

In includes/functions_newpost.php:

Find:

Replace with:

Just change 66 and 67 to your spam forumids, remove or add forumid's as needed. :)

Change -1 to +2 or +5 if you want to ADD to the member's post count for whatever reason. Play around with the code - this hack is meant to be customized in many ways for your forum. ;)

I came in here to ask what use there would be for having a negative post counting system, and tada, I have the answer. When I eventually get GamerForums running again this will come in handy for the annoying kids lol.

Talk about an underated thread, Tsch

This is what everyone has too need for them non essential parts of their forums, such as sig tests etc.

Thank you Erwin ;)

Erwin.... what am I going to do with you... Quote your keys SIR! ;)

How does that saying go? "You just cant get the staff" :)

Just outta curiosity, what happens if a member has 5 posts, and posts 6 times in a forum that is set up to deduct 1 post for each?

Will their post count show as -1 or will it remain 0 forever?

Interesting thought...will VB have a problem displaying this one...

Is there a way to modify this so it is based on a specific word a user uses, or only when a user posts in a specific thread?


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Nice job erwin thanks

will it work for threads if i simply substitute 'threads' for 'posts' in the code?

thanks in advance

Is there any way to make this work with the rebuild options? So it can apply retroactively? I wanted something that would have fractional post counts for off-topic forums, etc. But it can still be done with whole numbers by just multiplying everything.

-V

Sorry but I'm confussed...
I have a spam forum, #20
to remove a 1 from they're post count I have to...

if ($foruminfo['forumid']==20)
{
$doposts = 'posts = posts - 1,';

??
thanks

bump :)

Correct, except you forgot a } at the end. :)

How well does vB handle negative posts counts ?

Doesn't seem to do anything :/ on 3.06

I'll check when I find time to see if the code in 3.0.6 has changed.

thank you :)
Just so you know, when I installed it..
The post count didn't change when I posted in ANY forum.

can this be based on a userID or usergroup rather than forumID? and is there a way it can be set in the admin cp?

I'll modify this hack to do this via the Admin CP. :) Wait for it...

Works perfectly, many thanks :)

Is there any way to take this hack one stage further by separating new threads from replies?

I'd like to allow new threads to increase the post count but not replies - can this be done?

Cheers

:)