Lack of interest Account Upgrades: Permissions

[Khaleal]

Hi,

We have the following situation:
A webmaster offers automatic account upgrades. When a member in the forum reaches 50 posts he'll be able to create new threads. When he gets 5 likes he'll be able to like other members' posts.
In General: When a member in the group x reaches x of x he'll be granted access to x.
The traditional way of doing this is to copy the current user-group and grant the newly created group the permission of x (liking and/or posting threads, etc).. This way is difficult to implement and it becomes very difficult to control when many permissions need to be granted for many groups.
My suggestion is the following: To include an account permission upgrade option in the account upgrades section in the control panel to allow administrators to grant specific permissions (from the list) when the user in a specific user-group achieve specific thing.
For example, I click "Add Permission upgrade" from the control panel, I chose the user-group, I set the condition (the goal that a member have to achieve) and chose the permission which will be granted when the condition is fulfilled.

Like this post if you want this to be implemented in xenForo.

Thanks

 

[Paul B]

Read this for how to set up permissions correctly: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/implementing-permissions-across-multiple-user-groups.358/

It is not necessary, nor recommended to replicate existing permissions from other groups.

 

[Liam W]

What Brogan said.

Have a main usergroup, that has the permissions everyone has, but revoke liking other people's posts and posting threads.

Create 2 usergroups: Like Posts & Post Threads. All permissions set to 'not set', except the like posts or post thread permission, which is set to allow.

Setup 2 promotions to promote users to those usergroups when they reach the values required.

Done, simple and with little effort.