Restricting New User's

Is there a quick way where as I can restrict new users from viewing the forums (apart from a topic called introductions) until they have posted for the first time?

there is a way..
make groups..
restrict any new members from accessing the other forums and only groups can.. once they have posted, you put them in groups so they can access it
there is no automatic way of doing it though

yeah that's what i thought, so really i need to set up a new group for existing users and add them all into that?

Yes, you will need to make a rank called "new users" minimum posts 1 and set the permissions for that particular rank to only see the intro forum, you would not need to put everyne else in another group, just a group for the new users

Hope i could help,
Timmy

Timmy wrote:Yes, you will need to make a rank called "new users" minimum posts 1 and set the permissions for that particular rank to only see the intro forum, you would not need to put everyne else in another group, just a group for the new users

Hope i could help,
Timmy

Ranks do not have permissions to set. Ranks are only labels. You need to manually move the members from group to group.