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Just shooting ideas around, is there a way to limit the number of posts for a new user lets say 100, at that point they would have to purchase a membership? Not sure how you could keep people from just creating another username though? Ideas?

That would be fairly easy to do I think.....

Sort of add a check in whatever scripts that you don't want them to have access to, if their post count is > 100 and they aren't a member of the "subscribed" group.... then block them.

JustDave's double identities mod uses a cookie to check for multiple usernames using the same computer... that would help you catch duplicates.

They could sneak by you if they delete their cookies though. So it's not perfect.

[]They could sneak by you if they delete their cookies though.[/]
My users would do that for sure.

You could add IP to the check as well, you would at least get those who are at the same IP.

I've written a mod that automatically upgrades users to new groups at different post intervals, which could probably be used for this as well. Possibly, they would have to be removed from the old group, which my mod doesn't do, although it did in an earlier unreleased version, so it should be quite easy to hack.

Hmm, I wonder if it could be as easy as after 100 posts they get moved into a group that simply has no access.

Not quite, since they would still be in the normal user group which has access, so they would have to be removed from that as well.

You can find the Auto Group Change 1.1 beta mod here.

Just install that hack, and after that, find these lines in addpost.php:


And change them into this:


This should change users from the normal users group (with id 3) to the group you have set. It will only work with one level though, if you want them to be able to upgrade after that you will have to change it some more.
Haven't tried the code so it might not work, make backups of everything and some more after that before you try this. =]

what about adding in some sort of unlock code they would have to enter after reaching 100 posts?