[Lance Carbuncle]

Originally Posted by WetWired

A user's activity only gets updated when they visit or when their posts or profile is viewed. This means that it's possible to come back after a month of inactivity and have the old usergroup untill the next time promotions are run. It is, of course, possible to just do activity for everyone at once, however the process would be very server intensive, which is why I do it the way it is now.

Thanks for the feedback WetWired... I am having a little trouble understanding what you are saying here, so maybe you can comment one more time........When are the promotions run now? Is this part of your script, or a vbulletin action.... Would it be possible to run a promotion check for a single user upon there visit, or is the problem that vbulletin would have to run all promotions to check one? (I am speaking al a layperson here and have no idea of coding or how things work, just a mechanic's view of the computer world LOL) Could vbulletin be set to run promotions once every evening for all users at a user set time (low visit period) if it uses a lot of resources?


OOps.... reading it again, I guess it would be the activity you would want to run a scheduled update for? and then promotions?

Thanks Again, Lance