restrict people from forums Via postcount
 

one of my members was asking me to restrict people from specific forums or threads via post count

ie you need 100 posts to get into the downloads section
200 posts to get into the over 18's section and so on

i know that people on this forum would love such a feature

I know I would...

Look into the promotion system and secondary usergroups ;)

it would be better as a hack because i always have too many extra usergroups if i added this one simple setting it would cause me to have 5 extra usergroups

and those are my current usergroups that have these promotions

i was thinking maybe add it within the forum settings
need's 'x' amount of posts to access this forum

i also made myself a little more clear in adding Specific forums and threads not just the forums in general

I agree, or there could just be a coded addon in future releases for a forum option, that let's you specify a minimum amount of post counts before the user can enter/post in that forum.

Why add a feature thats already in vB?

Faranth: it currently can only be done via promotions and usergroup permissions, but what if you want it to be non-usergroup related? Then it's no longer possible with vB3 itself, hence, a hack for that is well in its place.

I could make this, but I don't know how much time it would take, and right now I can't risk starting on it and ending up having spent far too much time on it, yet...

Its not hard to add one usergroup to be accomplish this, i already have a large forum setup with tons of usergroups and they all seem to be working fine :)

i'd have to make 5 extra usergroups to accomodate just one change and that would be only for one forum
or post
it doesn't seem worthit :S
ps if it can be done show me how

how do you figure 5 extra usergroups?