Why not make something where you can set the limit on how many posts!, a user may make a day?

I think that would be a great hack for us all!

it would? Most boards WANT their members to post. :confused:

ya but what if on person is spaming like crasy and needs to calm down a tad, instead of not letting them post at all, you could limit how many the may post in 24 hours? I swear i have seen something like this before on a message baord??? hmmmmmmm..

My members have a cure for members like that. It's called the silent treatment. :D

If you can code, here's a couple of thoughts on how to start this one.

1. Add an invisible field to the user profile that you can use to set the limit.

2. In the newreply.php and newthread.php, check to see if they have a posting limit. If they do, do a query to see how many posts they have made in the last 24 hours.

3. If they have exceeded their quota, show them a template that says they can't post.

This way, you are only moderating trouble users and not everybody.

Good luck with it. It should be a relatively easy hack for you to do.

Amy

I have no idea how to code, but it sounds like you can :D

I need one of these for my forum, one user went through and replied to ever single thread, with utter crap. Even threads almost a year old got replid to with crap, I really NEED this hack!

yes yes !!!