Force New Users!

[The Realist]

Hi All,

Been looking around and cannot find such a modification or Im blind

I need to force new registered users to make a post in one section first before they can make further posts within the rest of the forum, is there such a hack?

I've tried using the promotions part of VB but when I lower the time to 1 minute its not working hence another way request.

Anyone?

Regards

[Sawa Dee SohL]

I found this hack by typing in "force" > All Mods > Titles only

Force Users to Read Thread

Not sure if there's a way to force them to post (havent read it myself) - but I now quite a few people who have this mod, and like it quite a bit. Hope that helps some

[dismas]

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165951" target="_blank">Force users to introduce themselves</a>

I don't use it but I presume that you could make it fit your needs.

[Dismounted]

What is wrong with the promotions system? I'm sure users "worth having" wouldn't mind a little wait.

[The Realist]

The promotions system I've tried but the cron does not work for some unknown reason. I've lowered the update from default of 25 minutes to 1 minute and its not working, hence a hack is requested.

Regards and thanks all.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Please elaborate on the "does not work". what doesn't work. Is the Sched. Task not running? Isn't it doing what you intended? Is this on a production board with members online all the time?

[The Realist]

The task just does not update automatically, it works if I manually run it but not automatic.

Regards

[Marco van Herwaarden]

But it does run?

[The Realist]

Just checked the logs and its only ever run once and thats when I manually clicked run from the Scheduled Task Manager.

So no its not running?

Regards

[Dismounted]

If you view the source of any normal forum page, do you see this near the end? (It will not be exactly the same.)

<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/cron.php?rand=XXXXXXX" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />