Hello,
TL/DR see the question in bold.
Apologies if this has been rehashed before, I searched and could not find a solution. Please feel free to point me.
I understand Xenforo treats usergroups differently than VBulletin, and I'm quite excited to reduce our usergroups from 26 to ~9 or so. I've got design solutions for all of our usergroups, except how to treat New Users.
Here is our use case:
I can design this by heavily restricting the Registered usergroup and then create a "Really Registered" usergroup and promotion. I do not like that solution because it effectively is a duplication of data - nearly all New Users will eventually get promoted.
I prefer the design below, but ran into one roadblock:
TL/DR see the question in bold.
Apologies if this has been rehashed before, I searched and could not find a solution. Please feel free to point me.
I understand Xenforo treats usergroups differently than VBulletin, and I'm quite excited to reduce our usergroups from 26 to ~9 or so. I've got design solutions for all of our usergroups, except how to treat New Users.
Here is our use case:
- New Users get a special title
- New Users, like guests, can view all general forums
- New Users can only post in one forum. This helps our welcoming moderator to review all new users, although we don't require manual approvals.
- New Users get a Notice block directing them to that forum
- New Users are promoted to Registered Users after creating 2 posts. Registered Users can post in all forums.
I can design this by heavily restricting the Registered usergroup and then create a "Really Registered" usergroup and promotion. I do not like that solution because it effectively is a duplication of data - nearly all New Users will eventually get promoted.
I prefer the design below, but ran into one roadblock:
- special title -> use Trophies instead of usergroup title overrides
- notice -> set a notice rule against "User has posted no more than X Messages"
- can only post in one forum until 2 posts are made -> how to solve?