RE: How to handle paid subscriptions

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/How-to-handle-paid-subscriptions-tp7586654p7586669.html

Coleen_Astalos wrote

Actually they need to have NO access (I can do that right?)

Indeed, just remove view access from the "Anyone" group, then all that someone sees is a login screen.  I assume you have a site or other place where people find out about your forum. If not then just make our "real forum" a sub-forum and remove "View" permission from that for all except paid-up members.

Out of my over 1,000 subscribers, only 10% are active posters, the remaining 90% are just lurkers and read the ideas shared by the 10%.  So I'd need to make sure that if they haven't paid their dues they can't even read what's being shared (otherwise no reason to pay their dues).

Checking on payment has to be a totally manual process outside of Nabble. You need to add and remove your paid-up users from the "Member" group as necessary.

I'm still concerned that they could decide to "remove" themselves from the
group and then any threads that they contributed to while they were members
would be lost (they do sign an agreement when they join that they understand
their posts will remain on the site - even if they are no longer a member).
So I really need to figure out how to remove that capability.

Nabble grants the poster full control over their own posts, not the forum administrator, so there is no system, as standard, in Nabble to retain access to a user who chooses to remove their posts. You would need to  edit the NAML for your forum to prevent it. (There are currently other topics discussing this issue, so it will be best to follow them.)

In all normal circumstances it is not an issue. As you report, typically, a poster just loose interest in a forum and disappears. (Because there is no mechanism within Nabble to see when a user last logged on, there is no way to distinguish between as lurker and a registered user who has just abandoned a forum - again there is a current topic which seeks to address this issue.) Almost the only case where a user is likely to delete his posts is when he is in feels abused by other users or is in dispute with the forum administrator.