Moderate first post or thread

[Hal 2007]

Is there a way to have the first post or thread of a member go into moderation to be reviewed by an admin or moderator before it is viewable by the forum.

[Lynne]

I used to do that. I had the Registered Users group that was moderated. Then I set up a new Registered Users - Non Moderated user group and used promotions to move the users from the moderated one to the non-moderated one after one post.

[Hal 2007]

Can you explain in a little more detail how you set yours up?
Do I need to create a new user group category?
Thanks.

[Lynne]

Yes, you do need to create a new usergroup. What I did is copied the Registered Usergroup exactly - all forum permissions as well as usergroup permission (all done on the usergroup screen). Let's call the new usergroup "Registered Users - non mod". Then, create a Promotion to move users from the Registered Users group to the Registered Users - non mod group after x posts (no, this is not a Rank, it is a Promotion under Usergroups). Run this Scheduled task manually to move the users. Then make the Registered Users group a Moderated usergroup and all posts made by Registered Users will go into Moderation.

You should try this on a test site first (as you should do with any modification/change).