Hi, we'd like to have some of our forums READ-ONLY, where all logged in members can view the section, but only a hand-picked can postin it. So they would be Read-Only for regular members, and Read-And-Write for people who are given the privilege to.
Yeah, you can do this with user promotions: promote the users based on posts count to a new user group and give this group write permissions in that node.
Yeah, you can do this with user promotions: promote the users based on posts count to a new user group and give this group write permissions in that node.
1. Setup the forums as you'd like.
2. Reject posting privilege settings for the basic "Registered" member group for the selected forums that you want to be restricted.
3. Create the additional user group that WILL have posting rights. (Example Below: "Users With 10 Posts")
4. Grant posting rights to the new group created in step #3 for the selected forums/categories.
5. In user promotions (./admin.php?user-group-promotions/), create a new promotion: Give it a name and select the promotion criteria (User has X number of posts)
Under the Apply this promotion while... tab
After you enable the promotion, when the cron job runs, it will auto promote people to the new group.
(This runs at XX:20, each hour)
Effect:
Any member that makes 10 posts will be promoted to the new group and gain the new rights that you have set in the new group.
(Reminder: The cron job runs once per hour, so it's not immediate unless you increase the interval of the cron job)
That's the simple way to implement what you're asking.