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    Posted: 30 November 2007 at 3:53pm
Is there any way to lock a forum to new topics, yet allow users (not guests) to reply to individual threads?

my real life example at TampaMartialArts.org:

Main Forum: Tampa Martial Arts Schools (locked)
Sub-Forum: Muay Thai & Kickboxing (locked)
Topic:  Freestyle Muay Thai

I want users to be able to reply to topics, but not be able to  start a new topic in either the main forum or sub-forum. Right now, a regular user can't post replies to topics becasue the Forum and Sub-forum are both locked.

This is because I have a specific format I want to use when entering school information, so I don't want users posting that; but I'd like them to be able to comment on individual schools once I've added them...

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TMA.O
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what i would do is ..
you can use the group permissions.,

set it so the group can only reply etc and not post new topics/create

i think that is what you are wanting. you can do that on a user , group and forum set up ie on anyone of those


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Thanks dj air

I'll give that a try-

Edit:
Unlocking the forums and allowing only Reply permissions worked - thanks!


Edited by TampaMartialArts - 30 November 2007 at 6:16pm
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