[JaNa]

Eh, why are you people so nasty to him...Personally I find this useful, when my board gets bigger i'll probaly use it to lower bandwidth, in a small way ^^

/me clicks install

[Zachery]

Eh, why are you people so nasty to him...Personally I find this useful, when my board gets bigger i'll probaly use it to lower bandwidth, in a small way ^^

Because of the following.

Originally Posted by NTLDR

Note this hack has several flaws, the main one being everyone can still receive PM's if they are switched on and be notified they have new PM's, yet not be able to view them.

IMO the promotions route is a lot more comprehensive and at the end of the day the little time taken to do it means greater benefits for all. I know, I've done both methods on my board.

[350Chevy]

Still a good idea.. I'll try to use/fix the code to block users with a certain post count from viewing a particular forum and it's threads..

[Battle_Ring]

Originally Posted by GeekyDesigns

Hate to say this, but yet another useless hack. Somthing that can be acomplished by default within vBulletin 3's system.


How you ask?

Usergroup Promotions:
Default usergroup gets NO pm permissions
add a secondary usergroup that has PM's enabled
Add a promotion to add user to new group when XXX posts number is reached

The Best Thing About This Is People Cant Go To Your Board And Spam Your PM's...

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Battle_Ring

The Best Thing About This Is People Cant Go To Your Board And Spam Your PM's...

Also turning off the pm system for users who are not in a group that can send pms works much better

[Battle_Ring]

/\ This Is True....I Would Rather Change Groups, Add A Promotion Instead Of Adding The PHP....

[DiscussAnything]

going with the usergroup promotions, what's the proper way to set it up?

I've created a second usergroup "Registered w/ PM", turned off PM's on "Registered"

As far as promotions go, set it to xxx posts, set it to secondary group and choose the new group. Once this is done, will it automatically put all members that are in the registered group with xxx or more posts in the new subgroup? I just hate to make the changes and then have 200 angry users email/IM me about their PM's not working

I'm not real familiar with the promotions etc as I've never used the

K

[iSpanish]

nice hack
-Marboosh clicks install

[JC]

Thank you, very easy.

[SHANE-D-PAIN]

This will do for now, sick of the damned asl? PMs off little kids....

*Happily Clicks Install and looks forward to seeing a better version or making one himself...*

[almqdad]

does it work with VB 3.07

[CP,]

hi there im trying to install a hack which does not allow new users to pm unless they have an x amount of posts, i'm following this hack http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/show...hlight=posts+pm

i'm stuck here and dont know where to go nor where to find it, the instructions are not so clear:


###################### AddAdmin Options
Making sure you have the $debug variable in config.php
go to your admin control panel (http://yourdomain.com/vbulletin/admincp/)
and then click Vbulletin Options >> VBulletin Options >> Edit Settings >> Add new setting

Enter the following as follows:

1) varname - minpostpm
2) Setting Group - Private Message Options
3) Minimum Post Count
4) Insert the minimum amount of posts a user must have to use the Private Message System.
5) Leave the next box blank
6) Default - Instert the number you want to have
7) Display Order - Leave as is
8) vBulletin Default - No




###### End of hack ######

i just cannot find the Add new setting under vb options...., ive got a vb3.0.8 anybody help?

[Zachery]

I highly suggest not using this hack and using promotions as it is.

[CP,]

whys' that? and tell me about promotions??

[Ghanem]

hi..

any update for 3.5.0