force to post to a sub forum?

[Gale (Audacity Team)]

Is it possible to force posting to a sub forum even if a user enters via the parent forum. In case I'm using wrong terminology,  if someone goes here:
http://n2.nabble.com/Audacity-f238276.html

is there some way so they don't get a new topic option until they go to a sub forum. I've seen "change forum format" but I'm not sure it helps.


Thanks    

[Will <Nabble>]

Gale (Audacity Team) wrote

Is it possible to force posting to a sub forum even if a user enters via the parent forum. In case I'm using wrong terminology,  if someone goes here:
http://n2.nabble.com/Audacity-f238276.html

is there some way so they don't get a new topic option until they go to a sub forum.

Yes. Go to Options->Control User Privileges, Under "Who can start new topics and create sub-forums here?" select "Owners only". This way, the non-owners will see "Use sub-forum to post" instead of "New topic". You can log out of your account and see what it looks like.

[Gale (Audacity Team)]

Thanks Will. My suggestion would be this option should be off by default at least insofar as normal users should not be able to create subforums.


Gale  

[Nalicter]

Gale (Audacity Team) wrote

Thanks Will. My suggestion would be this option should be off by default at least insofar as normal users should not be able to create subforums.

I think you two were talking about something in different contexts here. However, I at first agreed that the ability for anyone to make sub forums should be off by default. However, now I semi-disagree—because I've learned how pinned forums work. Pinned forums show up first, and they're known to be created by the forum owner. If you pin your forums, I don't think you'll find user-created forums too problematic (unless of course users think they're making posts, instead of really weird-looking forums).

I might suggest adding an 'are you sure' warning for creating forums, letting people know that they're making a forum and not a post (at least, if the forum name is more than a few words or if the description is filled).