Forum Moderation Mod?

[USAPatriot]

Hi,

I want to give some users the ability to moderate their own forums within a specific category. That's the easy part. But I want those moderators to be able to post to their own forums while disallowing the other members the ability to start a thread or reply. They will still be able to read. All this while not disturbing permissions in the other categories. Possible? -Rod-

[Marco van Herwaarden]

This can easily be done with usergroup permissions of standard vB.

[USAPatriot]

I'm not seeing how it's possible and the vBulletin people on the .com board tell me it's not. Please explain. Here's the example:

Under a single category...

User A owns a forum, and can post to it.

User B owns a different forum, and can post to it.

User A can read User B's forum, but cannot post or reply to it.

User B can read User A's forum, but cannot post or reply to it.

Users C thru Z can read A's and B's forums but cannot post or reply to them.

-Rod-

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Set your normal usergroup to only allow reading on the category.

Now set User A as a moderator of forum A.
Set user B as moderator of forum B.

Finished.
(Maybe you must also create a usergroup A and a usergroup B, give those groups posting permissions for forum A or B, and give user A/B the corresponding usergroup A/B as a secondary group.

[Andreas]

Having secondary usergroups does work, yes.
But to me, having a usergroup just for a single user sounds like overkill
Better solution (pseudo-code):
IF (moderator AND specialcategory IN parentlist)
{
permissions += post thread and reply to thread
}

[USAPatriot]

Nah...this isn't working. I've gone through it forwards and backwards. Making the forum read only, putting a test user into a special user group, giving him mod priveleges (Specifying that he can post) just steps on the read-only aspect. The software seems to see the conflict and takes the safest route. It disallows posting. Other ideas? -Rod-

Set your normal usergroup to only allow reading on the category.

Now set User A as a moderator of forum A.
Set user B as moderator of forum B.

Finished.
(Maybe you must also create a usergroup A and a usergroup B, give those groups posting permissions for forum A or B, and give user A/B the corresponding usergroup A/B as a secondary group.