Posts viewable in a "locked" forum?

[ubersoldat]

Hi there, first of all let me thank you for the super nice forum(s) you provide, the simplicity to set one up, along with the admin panel etc just makes it delicious!

And now, on to my delicate little problem;

I have setup a little forum for me and a bunch of friends, the forum consists of a "Members" section with 5-6 sub categories which is only accessable to members (or so I thought o.O) and a "Public" section with 2 sub categories available for all (read: guests / not logged in).

When not logged in, one will of course just have access to the open part, the public section, HOWEVER, should someone click the "Today's top 20 posters" or the "Overall top 20 posters" and from there click on a member, they can without being logged in, read that persons whole posting history.

I don't know if this is intended or if I simply have missed something within the Admin panel.
Admittedly there are no discussions goin on in the members section regarding bank robberies, dirty bombs, or world domination in general, it is however a slighty annoying (miss)feature.

Please help me out, many thanks in advance.

Richard

[BioBob]

I didn't read your problem sorry but what i think you want is
that members/guests aren't allowed to see the Locked forum! right!

if so then you need to make it Unviewable for members and guests!

Go to: Admin Panel -> General Tab -> Forum -> Gategories and forum -> Now click on for the forum you want to hide for Members/guests and Uncheck view and read for the members and guests

done!

Sorry again if this isn't what you wanted ( i didn't read your problem )

[BioBob]

or do you wanted to remove the posting history for guests!

This is how you can remove posting history for guests but the member can see his OWN posting history only!!

this is how you do it:

Go to: ADMIN panel -> Users and groups tab -> USERS -> Profiles -> General Option -> Uncheck Statistics

now the posts history is gone in User profiles !
the users can only view there posting history by going to the forums
and then click on: "View your posts"
You can find the "View your posts" right above the first forum category!

hope this helps!

( and if this isn't what you wanted to THEN I WILL READ YOUR PROBLEM

[ubersoldat]

Hey there BioBob

I did check the settings in the admin panel again, and the permission to "View the forum" + "Read the topics" is only marked for members, not for the guests.

What I mean is that should I visit the forum, not logged in, I will only see the public section (which is how it should be), once logged in I will have access to the members only section aswell.

But my problem is this, a guest can just click the link "Overall top 20 posters" found in the lower right corner, then click for example BioBob, he will then see something similar to:

Last visit: Today at 3:41 pm
Number of posts: 416
[23.07% of total / 1.43 posts per day]
Find all posts by BioBob :
- Topics
- Posts

Now, should that guest (not logged in, mind you) click the "-Topics" or "-Posts" he or she will be able to read every single post you have made on the forum, including any and all posts done by you in the locked "Members" section.

[ubersoldat]

Oh you wrote a second reply while I wrote mine, I'll read it and report in a min.

[BioBob]

lol!

[ubersoldat]

Yeeees!

Thank you Mr Biobob, that 2nd post of yours solved it!

[BioBob]

I know im the king!

[Sanket]

Since this thread appears to be solved, I will lock this thread and mark it as solved.
Sanket