Guests may post XX times before needing to register

[Paul]

Hi guys,

We've been having a problem on our forum with guests flooding the forum with abusive messages. Unfortunately, we are not able to restrict posting to members due to the nature of the forum. What we would like to do is have the ability to restrict users from being able to post any further without registering after X number of posts. For example, if set to 5, then a guest could post 5 messages. After that, when they returned to the site and attempted to post again, it would show them the registration page and require them to register before being able to post more messages (making banning and deleting a lot easier

Any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks!
Paul

Edit: The following thread looks like a start on how to approach it: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=40107