[Rob F]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Then again it's how you use Paul's mod. As he has it now, I created a lurkers group and restricted all permissions except for creating a thread in the forums. I don't allow them to even reply, they half to start a new thread. Once they post they are immediately restored to their original group or wherever you put them. How tight you set your days for lurkers will keep them posting more often if they want to read or post anything in your forums. There are other mods here to stopping them from lurking as a guest also.

I agree with you completely that its how you use the mod.

For me, I don't want the lurkers being immediately restored. Some in particular only visit my site now to copy ideas that I've implemented (mods) for their own site. They don't contribute at all anymore, and I genuinely don't see that situation changing any time soon. I also don't think they have the balls to appeal for the re-instatement of their account to its previous status once it gets moved. In the past week alone I've seen 3 new mods that I've added amazingly appear on another site - trust me, its not co-incidence

Hence my viewing lurkers & inactive as completely different categories. For the moment though, I'll be lumping them in together with the Auto Restore turned off