Forum is invisible until a user has so many posts.

[MaDCaT75]

Can anyone do a hack where a user cannot see a forum section until they have a certain amount of posts? Thanks.

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by MaDCaT75

Can anyone do a hack where a user cannot see a forum section until they have a certain amount of posts? Thanks.

this can be acomplished by creating usergroups, and moving them into it once they had enuf posts, it would be done the same way even with the hack i belive, it just would by done by the system instead. if you want things like this. it can be done in vb3 in about 5-10 min depending on how long it takes to set premissions

[Sylvus]

So if I'm a new user, how will I ever get any posts if I have 0 posts and can never see the forum until I post?

*scratches head*

You know, if you're trying to save bandwidth you might want to take a good look at your own forum design and options before force feeding new members with options like you want.

For instance, you'd save a lot of bandwidth if you removed images from signatures. You have people who's image signatures are bigger and longer than their posts and some of them just reply with a Take this thread as an example. Holy garbage of wasted bandwidth. Just look at the replies.

Thread

If you like letting users have graphical sigs, cut it down to display one sig per post, per page. There is an excellent hack that can do this for you.

Just my opinion of course.

Syl...

[sabret00the]

rofl@having movies as sigs and wondering how you killed your bandwidth

[insanctus]

That one link alone ~ dl to see how big it is.

1.02 MB (1,077,248 bytes)

Can you say ouch lmao.

[MaDCaT75]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

rofl@having movies as sigs and wondering how you killed your bandwidth

yeah uhm ok i shoulda killed myself a long time ago.

[insanctus]

No killing yourself unless you give me your licence lmao

[Logician]

edit functions.php, find:

PHP Code:

return $retval; 


Before that add: (that means in a new line above!)

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo[userid]==0)
{
$post[signature] = "";
$post[avatar]="";
} 


This hack will disable avatars and signatures for guests so you'll save some bandwidth..