[Snowhog]

Why such a MOD? Well, for us; a Linux (Kubuntu) support forum; we have many topic specific forums (for individual versions of Kubuntu) as well as some general topic and one Help the New Guy forum.

Our Help the New Guy forum has been generally overused by some of our members, with new threads made there that should properly have been made in a topic specific forum.

Newbie members; those for whom that forum was created; who have little to no experience with Kubuntu Linux; see them selves as 'the new guy' and gravitate to this forum (as they generally don't know what the real issue of their problem is, so aren't comfortable choosing a topic specific forum). Our problem is/was that a number of these 'newbies' are no longer 'the new guy'; they have been members for quite some time (even a long time), having made many, many new threads/posts, but continue to use this forum for new issues. This MOD allows me to establish controls on who can create new threads (the 'overused' issue) in that forum, and for me, solves the overuse issue.

This is version 1.0, but I think it likely that some additions/changes will ensue, as one almost never gets it 'perfect' the first time out of the gate!

Thank you MarkFL for another extremely useful MOD.