Limit topics per week for certain usergroups

[webgeek247]

I'd like to set it so Registered Users can create a new topic in the advertising forums once every 5 days but Premium Members can post a new topic in the advertising forums once every 2 days -- how to go about that?

[glennrocksvb]

I think this is feasible. But give me some time to evaluate this.

[webgeek247]

Many thanks for checking this glennrocksvb

I'd rather this option. Otherwise, I'd be forced only to allow Premium Members to advertise their services in the Advertising Forums and staff would have to manually check to make sure no one is posting a new topic more than once every 2 days which could become very tedious. I prefer automation. Of course, I can pay you a little for this, so no problem there.

There is an old plugin for this, but I think it only works on vB3/4. I'm not even going to try to use it on vB5. I want clean code as 100% as possible to ensure forum loads as fast as possible, etc.

The one I found was http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=131014

An optional addition that would be good and I would pay extra for is if when a member tries to post but the 2 or 5 days haven't passed it triggers a message to be displayed exactly when they can post again. I asked for that feature on some other big forum which they did although that is for vB4. Many find it very useful. Would love to see that with vB5.

Looking forward to seeing what you can do. Feel free to PM ME on this forum if you prefer to discuss this in private.

Thanks again.

[glennrocksvb]

Thanks for the coffee. Will look into this over the weekend.

[webgeek247]

Ok Glenn. Thanks.

[webgeek247]

Any luck with this Glenn? No rush. Just checking if it's doable. This would be an important part of my forum.

[webgeek247]

I PM you instead. Thanks.

[glennrocksvb]

webgeek247, is this restriction only for starting a new topic or also for posting a reply or comment?

[webgeek247]

webgeek247, is this restriction only for starting a new topic or also for posting a reply or comment?

The restriction is only for starting a new topic. There is no need to restrict the replies to the topic once the topic has been created, because I would want to allow customers to ask questions e.g to the hosting provider.

As a web host, if I try to create a new thread at https://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4 to offer web hosting offers I get the message

As a Premium Member, you may only start a new thread every 6 day(s). You may post in this forum again on 03/22/2017 after 7:09 PM.

Upgrade to a Corporate Membership to be able to start a new advertising forum thread every 3 days!

I would like mine to be slightly different because we don't offer Corporate Membership. I want to allow Regular Members to create a new thread every 5 days and Premium Members to create a new thread every 2 days.

For example, ours would show either of the following depending on whether the member trying to create a new thread is a Regualr Memeber or a Premium Member or not.

As a Regular Member, you may only start a new thread every 5 day(s). You may post in this forum again on 03/22/2017 after 7:09 PM.

Upgrade to a Premium Membership to be able to start a new advertising forum thread every 2 days!

As a Premium Member, you may only start a new thread every 2 day(s). You may post in this forum again on 03/22/2017 after 7:09 PM

[glennrocksvb]

Thanks for the clarification and the additional details of the requirements. Those are helpful.

[glennrocksvb]

webgeek247, in order to do this properly and avoid having a "hacky" solution, I need new PHP hook events added by vBulletin. I posted a hook request in JIRA. Please vote for it.

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-17168