How to make it so only people with 500+ posts can see forum?

[Lovinmysailor]

After you make the promotions just go to your forum permissions and go to the forum you want the under 500 to see but not post in and change the permissions for that usergroup.

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by orange peel

I tried going to User Permissions> View Forum, and if I set that to No, than they wont even be able to see the forum in the index, which I dont want. but if I set Yes, they see it in the index but can also enter it.

Well, I saw from instructions, if you use Access masks, they don't even see forums, if not, they see it, but can't enter it.

Here's c&p from instructions (from AdminCP):

Enable Access Masks
Access masks allow you to enable or disable access to a particular forum for individual user(s). To use them, you must enable this option. This option also affects whether or not users will be able to see forums they do not have access to on forumhome and forumdisplay. (If this is off, they will see them in forum listings but not be able to enter them. If this is on, they will not see them at all.)

It's in AdminCP->vBulletin Options->General Settings. Problem is, if you use Access Masks for something, you can't turn them off. Anyway, if you can turn them off, this could be solutions for you.

[orange peel]

I got it. I turned Access Masks off and toyed with the permissions for the Registered Users.

The only problem now would be that it shows 0 as the number of threads and posts for users without access to it. Id rather have it display the actual number or a dash to block out the number

[Alan_SP]

Huh, you can go to AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Forum Listings Display Options->Show Private Forums.

This is what manual has to say:

Show Private Forums
Select 'No' here will hide private forums from users who are not allowed to access them. Users who do have permission to access them will have to log in before they can see these forums too.

Either of the yes options will allow users to see all forums that they don't have access to. The ability to see the forum's post count is controlled by the two yes options. If a forum is passworded, it is treated as a private forum until the user enters the valid password.

Well, it seems to me, you want last option selected.