Put new members in a specific usergroup?
 

This is probably a stupid question but for some reason I can't figure it out.

All my new members as soon as they confirm their email they are placed in the "Registered Users" user group. I want them to placed in a "new member" user group that I created that is set so I can moderate the first couple posts and then transfer them to the non-moderated user group "Registered Users" .

OK so in short how do I get the user as soon as they sign in to be placed in my "new member" user group instead of the Registered Users group.

I know this has to be easy but for some reason I have gone braindead!

Just in case my forum address is http://www.letstalkaboutdisney.com/LTADForum/

cant remember the sepcific details, but it should be

usergoups>promotions

then i think the default should be users awaiting email confirmation to registered users. If you edit that and select the target usergroup as new members that should do it.

you'll then need to add a new promotion to move the new users to registered users.

Hope that helps :D

Thanks. I tried that and signed up as a new member but it still threw me in the registered users. HMMMM. weird. I thought there would be aplace in the options under "user registration options" were you can choose where to put new members. But theres not.

Thanks for the help .

Just moderate your registered members and once they're worthy promote them to something like "senior members" / etc..

jm2c

I guess that would work too. Didn't think of that. Thanks. Will try that.

Here is another solution you can try...rename "Register Users" into the one you wish for new ones to be as...than make a new usergroup (which is the promotion)so you don't have to mod new users.

Example: "Register Users" is now "Newbie" and than when they meet a certain requirement..it will put them as "Register Users" later on

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