How to limit the number of threads and comments that a member can publish?

Olivaw

I wish that in a Vanilla 2.3 forum every member had a maximum number of threads and comments for each week. This can help me to limit meaningless interventions. So, is there someone who can help me?

hgtonight

You can use the built in Flood Control: https://forum.example.com/vanilla/settings/floodcontrol

The view doesn't give you an option beyond 4 minutes, but I don't see anything immediately jumping out that would prevent you setting say (7 * 24 * 60 * 60) seconds in the SpamCheck and a higher thread count.

Olivaw

unfortunately flood control does not satisfy the request, unless you can change the default values

hgtonight

@Olivaw said:
unfortunately flood control does not satisfy the request, unless you can change the default values

Sorry I wasn't explicit. You can modify the values directly in the /conf/config.php file. The values you are looking for are:

$Configuration['Conversations']['Conversation']['SpamCount'] = '2';
$Configuration['Conversations']['Conversation']['SpamTime'] = '30';
$Configuration['Conversations']['Conversation']['SpamLock'] = '60';
$Configuration['Conversations']['ConversationMessage']['SpamCount'] = '2';
$Configuration['Conversations']['ConversationMessage']['SpamTime'] = '30';
$Configuration['Conversations']['ConversationMessage']['SpamLock'] = '60';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Discussion']['SpamCount'] = '30';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Discussion']['SpamTime'] = '240';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Discussion']['SpamLock'] = '120';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comment']['SpamCount'] = '5';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comment']['SpamTime'] = '60';
$Configuration['Vanilla']['Comment']['SpamLock'] = '120';

Olivaw

@hgtonight GREAT!