Re: Link or forum section visible only to certain group of users
Reply #1 – March 20, 2021, 05:31:08 am
Hi and welcome to elkarte! As far as I know, you can't set permissions for spoiler, and you can't choose which membergroups can view links. It requires custom coding. There is an add-on that only hides links for guests. With permission you can set an entire board to only some membergroups.
Re: Link or forum section visible only to certain group of users
Reply #4 – March 20, 2021, 05:08:05 pm
I see, thanks! Anyway I'll try to rewrite the plugin in such way to hide link for users having karma less or equal certain value not only the guest user themself.
Re: Link or forum section visible only to certain group of users
Reply #5 – March 21, 2021, 08:23:41 am
My experience of foruming is that such things tend to be very divisive and counter-productive to forum communities. Blocking off content to people with lower karma doesn't help them become better contributors - all it does is produce cliques within the community where they will inevitably just up-vote each other to keep their own ratings high, and newer contributors can't get in easily. Plus it becomes all too easy for someone to be hounded out of a community if content they previously had access to is hidden after a campaign of downvoting.
Re: Link or forum section visible only to certain group of users
Reply #7 – March 22, 2021, 05:33:36 am
Simple approach is assigning board access to allowed group. This is a default feature.
Re: Link or forum section visible only to certain group of users
Reply #10 – March 22, 2021, 10:44:47 am
BTW is PosgreSQL recommended SQL engine for ElkArte?
Re: Link or forum section visible only to certain group of users
Reply #14 – March 23, 2021, 03:55:27 am
Hello all! Yep, I got the points and opinions, so another newbie's question come to scene: is ElkArte successor of SMF forum engine? How much it codebase differs from SMF in that case?