Hosting Private Forums

[Zylantex]

Some members have asked for a private forum where they can discuss gaming tactics out of the public eye. I have no objection to this at all but I'm at a loss as to how to manage it. I know if I allow one more will be asked for over time so I need a handy procedure to manage this.

I'm thinking a special type of moderator usergroup which wouldn't have access to the main staff forum. They would have to be able to grant access to the forum / ban from the forum etc.

Any guidelines on how to do this or is there a plugin / mod that does this?

Many thanks,

Z

[WEBDosser]

make a new usergroup and a new forum, make the forum only access by the new usergroup.

[Zylantex]

Thanks but how do I allow the mod of that forum to grant access to the user group and by extension to the forum?

[BirdOPrey5]

You don't. Mods can't give access to private forums, only admins will be able to do that.

Another option is a password protected forum, but I've never seen one run well, the password always gets leaked...

[Zylantex]

I've seen it done on one major forum. They had a Mod Utils page and you could grant / remove access on it.

Mods could see a list of the forums they has rights over and then they selected the forum that they wished to moderate. Then they were presented with a list of the forums members and given the option to add or removes names from that list. It's simple enough really if you had any coding skill which I haven't.

Maybe I will put up a request for a coder to create this as a mod. Other people could probably use this. Some kind soul might help me out.