How to Set Up Tiered Model of Users Tied to Subsets of Features
What is involved in creating a tiered membership for vB fourm user groups if we want to divide existing users into 3-4 tiers depending upon any one specific criteria? Different users will have access to different tiers of features depending upon their tier status such as gold, silver, and platinum. These tiers could be set based upon number of posts and / or on some other subscription fee based criteria chosen by the forum owner. This approach seems to make sense as power users who happen to use most of the costly features are more expensive and cost more to maintain in terms of bandwidth, storage, and communication costs.
How would one manually change the members' group in a batch mode, say if you have to change the group of a few hundred or thousand members from a given group at a time? Say, if the change of group and related features is related to payment of a tiered subscription fee? Has someone tried to tie the membership status (group) to some subscription scheme? I recall having seen some prior discussions of vBulletin users who are using vB with payPal and other transaction schemes.
TIA
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08-14-2002, 10:12 AM
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