Can referrer credit be given only upon a MINIMUM # of posts?

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Hello.

Is there a way to require a MINIMUM # of posts before referrer/referral credit is officially recorded?

Thanks in advance.

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Any ideas anyone?

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It's pretty simple. Just make another field to store the new referal number in. Then add a cron job to update the number when users that are refered reach a certain post count.

Otherwise another way would be to make referals only count people in a certain usergroup. Make a base usergroup, then another group for those who have the minimum number of posts. Use the promotions system to automatically move people then.

Both of these ideas would need to be coded though. The second one makes more sense I think, and would be much easier to implement since it wouldn't require adding any new tables. Might have to be a code hack though, since you'd have to turn off the referal code within the register.php file and add it somewhere else.

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Thanks for your response.

Still not quite sure how to create the details, tho...

How 'bout this idea:

Keep the referral 'system' as is and add a conditional to only count those new members that has at least 1 post. In the profile, it can show both the 'raw' referrer and the referrer amount that will be used for incentive programs, etc. :squareeyed: