I was curious as to the policy on the
move topic option. There are some boards that are restricted to certain users on the forum, mostly based on their ranks, and users below a certain rank cannot start threads or reply to them on such boards. However this doesn't seem to cover a topic which was moved.
If a newbie comments on a thread in Trading discussion, and such thread is moved to the serious discussion board, there seems to be no restrictions on the post and the reply would show to have been made in Serious discussion.
I experimented this with one of my previous topics, and it checked out.
There were posts made by newbies on the original thread made in Tradig discussion, and those posts counted as posts made in Serious discussion board after it was moved:
Users' post history:
I quickly moved the thread back to avoid it being reported as it was then in the wrong sectionI also did a search on SMF and how post restrictions are implemented and it did not say anything about moved threads,
Some Administrators like to limit what board new users can post in until they get to a certain post count. Many find it difficult to figure-out how to do this. Hopefully, the following steps will be helpful in figuring this out:
A board needs to be created or an existing one can be used.
Remove all posting and reply permissions from the "Regular members" group.
Enable permissions for post count based groups, following the directions here
Set up at least two post-count based groups, one for members with zero posts and another for members with more then one post.
In the post-count based group for members with more then one post, assign permissions to this group to allow posting and replies. But, do not allow posting and replies in the zero post-count group
Now is the time to create a permission profile for the board for which you want to restrict the users. Take a look at this for instructions on how to create the profile. In this profile be sure to allow the 0 post count group to be able to post and/or reply. If using SMF v2.*, remember to assign the profile to the proper board by editing the board.
After you have completed these steps, you will have set things up so that those in a post-count based group with more than one post can create new topics and reply to topics in all boards, but those that do not have one or more posts will not be able to post in any other board than the one with the profile assigned to it. It will be necessary to give posting permissions to the other post count based groups if more then two groups exist.
If topics newbies replied to can be moved to restricted boards, could newbies also move their own topics to such boards? I didn't have a way to experiment this, but I'll be curious to know the outcome.
This is not a major flaw, and I see no incentive for users to try and exploit it, as mods can handle the situation fairly easily. The new forum software could have an algorithm that prevents this maybe.
