Requiring a certain amount of posts before one can post a thread
 

For vBulletin 4.2.2, I thought I remember having a way to require a certain amount of posts before a user can post in a forum.

For instance, if <user> has 12 posts, they cannot post in 'X' forum because there is a 15 post requirement.

Further elaboration:
There is a 15 post requirement to apply for forum moderator at the forum I work at, and I want to require that 15 post count in order for someone to post in the forum moderator pending application section.

How can I accomplish this?

Thanks in advance,
Jake

The way I did it was to create a new usergroup that all new users automatically went into when they register. This usergroup restricts users to what they can do until they reach 20 posts at which time they automatically switch to the normal registered usergroup.

All these restrictions can be done with normal forum permissions. The system also allows for moving to another usergroup on reaching a certain number of posts.

Yes, you can do this with usergroup promotions.


Make the default Registered Usegroup not able to start threads.

Create a new group based off the registered usergroup, give them the ability to create threads.

Create a new usergroup promotion to promote users after 15 posts to the new usergroup.


http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/usergroup_promotions

Yes you can that and there is a hack as well that allows you to do that. Take a look here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233979. Just keep in mind that if you do plan on using the promotions I've found that they do not work very well when this mod is installed, so if you need the promotion in other areas you may want to skip this mod.