Is it possible to stop all members from deleting their own replies?
I have a situation where some members are writing 'antagonistic' replies and then deleting them off after a day or so and as such making the content of other peoples replies seem stupid as you can't see what was originally written.
If you went that route you would need to disable editing as well...
I would think that it would be better to warn, then temporarily lock, then if they still don't get the hint permanently lock them. If you were really ambitious, you could use the UserGroups MOD to put them in a read-only "penalty box".
I say this because you really don't want to punish everybody for the foolishness of a few.
But to answer your question, it is possible to do - just not advised.
There is also a mod that allows you to define a time interval for editing posts. Once that interval is expired, the users are no longer allowed to edit their posts.
Thanks Anon. Is it possible without the mod or do I have to load that mod?
Thanks
You can manually lock their account in the base code, but that will prevent them from logging in.
If you install the UserGroups MOD, you can add them to a group with "Read-Only" access to all the forums, so they can log in and access most of what they normally would, they just can't post.
I'd forgotten about the Edit/Delete Post Time Limits code that ruirib and OneWayMule referenced...
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Posted - 16 October 2006 : 09:48:55
