Forum Moderation Mod?
 

Hi,

I want to give some users the ability to moderate their own forums within a specific category. That's the easy part. But I want those moderators to be able to post to their own forums while disallowing the other members the ability to start a thread or reply. They will still be able to read. All this while not disturbing permissions in the other categories. Possible? -Rod-

This can easily be done with usergroup permissions of standard vB.

I'm not seeing how it's possible and the vBulletin people on the .com board tell me it's not. Please explain. Here's the example:

Under a single category...

User A owns a forum, and can post to it.

User B owns a different forum, and can post to it.

User A can read User B's forum, but cannot post or reply to it.

User B can read User A's forum, but cannot post or reply to it.

Users C thru Z can read A's and B's forums but cannot post or reply to them.

-Rod-

Set your normal usergroup to only allow reading on the category.

Now set User A as a moderator of forum A.
Set user B as moderator of forum B.

Finished.
(Maybe you must also create a usergroup A and a usergroup B, give those groups posting permissions for forum A or B, and give user A/B the corresponding usergroup A/B as a secondary group.

Having secondary usergroups does work, yes.
But to me, having a usergroup just for a single user sounds like overkill ;)
Better solution (pseudo-code):
IF (moderator AND specialcategory IN parentlist)
{
permissions += post thread and reply to thread
}

Nah...this isn't working. I've gone through it forwards and backwards. Making the forum read only, putting a test user into a special user group, giving him mod priveleges (Specifying that he can post) just steps on the read-only aspect. The software seems to see the conflict and takes the safest route. It disallows posting. Other ideas? -Rod-