Suspend Posting Ability?

[Beverly]

I have 645 members in the forum on our site. We have a site for information and the forum members have been asked to send a contribution of as little as $20.00 a year ot help support the site. SOME members have responded, but the majority just go along for the ride. I have set up where those in the member group can post photos to encourage joining, and although it has helped,,,,,,

What I would like to do is "suspend" posting ability when a user reaches 500 posts, IF they are not a member of the membergroup. It would also be nice if they could be sent a message either through email or the IM that they will be suspended if they do not join...

Obviously, this needs to be something that resumes posting ability if they become a membergroup member by sending in the $.

Any chance of this in a mod?

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Beverly

[[Unknown]]

I'm thinking custom mod.  And since you'll be making money off of it, you should probably put a few dollars on the table for it.
(not a lot, just like $20.00 or something - enough for an incentive.)

And, no, I'm not saying I'll do it for money - I'd do it for free if I had time, but I don't.

-[Unknown]

[Spaceman-Spiff]

you can install the mute mod, and change the text that says: you are muted to something else like: your account has been suspended
then you can run a query like:
UPDATE yabbse_members SET isMuted=1 WHERE posts > 500 AND memberGroup = ''; <-- not yet tested
and for the email thing, u'll need to add some more code

to get the mute mod, follow the white rabbit in my sig

btw, i dont know what kind of members are in your forum, but a $20 fee per year? if i do that in my forum, nobody will go there anymore, lol.

[Beverly]

[Unknown]

I will not be making $ for it, the site income supports OHAHS, a horse humane society in Ohio. And all my work is VOLUNTEER, LOL I guess they are getting what they pay for.  But then again, they really HAVE no $.

Spaceman-Spiff
I do not really look at it as a "fee" as they can continue all but posting, so they can still access the educational portions of the board without sending in $.

I looked at your mute mod, and I THINK I can handle the installation (Jury's out but will let you know I = Newbie to PHP)

But have NO Idea what you mean by this:

then you can run a query like:
UPDATE yabbse_members SET isMuted=1 WHERE posts > 500 AND memberGroup = ''; <-- not yet tested
and for the email thing, u'll need to add some more code

Would you be so kind as to elaborate?

Thanks SOO Much!

Beverly

[Spaceman-Spiff]

may i know where the site is?
if its for charity i'll code it for you

the query i put above is for making everyone that has post count above 500 and not belong to any membergroup muted

[Beverly]

Spaceman-Spiff
The site is Gaited Horses
http://www.gaitedhorses.net/
There is a link at the bottom of this page to the Horse Humane Society site that the support is sent to.

http://www.gaitedhorses.net/GaitedHorsesForum/
Is the actual forum.

Once again, thanks!

Beverly

PS you can email me if there is any thing else you need to know too!

[[Unknown]]

[Unknown]

I will not be making $ for it, the site income supports OHAHS, a horse humane society in Ohio. And all my work is VOLUNTEER, LOL I guess they are getting what they pay for.  But then again, they really HAVE no $.

That's different, then.  I'd still do it if I had time, but I regret to say I'm running a bit short of late.

-[Unknown]

[Beverly]

I am just posting a reminder... still need this when you fine folks get the time.  

I have been "piddling" with it, and KNOW it is beyond my current abilities.  

ONE DAY I MAY have the proficiency, LOL

Beverly

[Spaceman-Spiff]

sorry, i forgot about this...

anyway, it will be easy to make a manual function for this
like an admin function to check and make every 500+ post members that don't belong to any membergroup set to mute
but doing it automatically will need more time to code

anyway, have you tried installing the mute mod?

[Beverly]

Spaceman-Spiff,

Sorry I had not responded earlier, had some personal insanity to deal with and have not had time to work on this.


I did TRY to install the mute mod, with no luck it scewed the board so something was done incorrectly.

If you cannot find the time to code this I certainly understand and appreciate all you do. I will try to install the  mute mod again, and if your schedule clears up please do let me know if you can  get a "round to it" LOL!

Beverly

[haase]

May I suggest something of an idea towards payment?

It is not uncommon for a company or person to offer a donation in the form of services.  If you could agree on a standard rate for coding, say $50/hour, then whomever does this mod for you can send you the total "would be" cost of the mod, and then you in turn can have OHAHS issues a donation receipt in that amount.  I believe it's pretty much a win/win situation.  You get your mod at no real cost, and the coder get's a nice tax deduction at the end of the year.

The additional return on their taxes at the end of the year should be just around that $20 that [unknown] mentioned.

Also, since you are running that forum for them, you should consider doing this yourself.  Even at $10/day effort (a pitiful rate if you spend an hour a day administering the site), that would make a $3650 tax deduction at the end of the year.  You'll  get a substantial return for that.

Please don't think this resorts to "trickery" or anything like that.  The whole idea of tax-deductible donations was created as an incentive to get big (and small) business to give back to the community.  Anyone who has listened to National Public Radio in the last 5 years has heard "brought to you by the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation."  Sure, they're using it to get a substantial tax break, and you might argue that's wrong, but at the same time that foundation is probably responsible for more than 10% of all Public Radio programs...  I can't argue with that...  I love public radio.   Again, I think it's a win/win situation.

[Beverly]

offer a donation in the form of services.

This man us a genus! I had not thought of this at all... Having checked with the powers that be at the horse rescue, this is ABSOLUTELY do-able! If someone would be interested in taking the time from their busy schedule to tinker with this a tax-deductible donation receipt would be sent from OHAHS!

Thanks

Beverly

[jack-uk]

*I hate to pick flaws (OK, that's alie, so sue me), but I think you may be going around this the wrong way if you are allowing the site to be free until a user makes 500 posts.
If the site stops working for them at tht point, there is no real hassle for them to delete their account and recoreate a new one - with a nice, zero, post-count.

Or have I missed something?

[Spaceman-Spiff]

sorry Beverly, i forgot again about this
and i'm afraid i don't have the time to code this
i'm working 2 jobs now, so i'm trying to reduce my voluntary works (like in here)

[Grudge]

Hi,

Although I am "relatively" new to mod making I have made some huge mods on my board and have a day off tomorrow so I may have a go at this for you. Let me understand the general idea:
If a user gets to >500 posts and isn't a member of (for example) "paid" membergroup then they cannot post a reply on your board?

I know you said that they should get send an email/IM but would it not be appropriate just to give them a message everytime they tried to reply saying "Your ability to post replies has been disabled - please make a donation etc etc". Basically - instead of getting the "post reply" screen they would get a message screen with a url to where to donate.

If this is the case it sounds like a fairly simple mod and I will try and do it tomorrow (I don't want any money/ receipt or whatever - it's fine). If you want anything more reply here and I'll see if it's something I could manage