[macooper]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but IMHO this Hack is useless: Promotions are a built-in Feature of vBulletin and are the way to go.

This hack is useless to you because you don't have a use for it. I use this hack for my board because it simplifies things. To do the same with promotions, I need multiple seperate user groups per forum. I have 4 forums that require access control in this way, so that's a large number of user groups to manage, each with it's own configuration.

Your right in the sense that you can do the same thing without this hack. But there are a large number of hacks that just make things more convenient. This is one such hack.