ok, so im bout to buy vbulletin ... here is my question. im making forums for about 3 diff online gaming clans... they can all access the forums and post around and what have you .. but certain forum categories are kinda like "For Clan A Eyes Only" type deal as others are for "Clan B" eyes only... so my question is, can you put individual passwords on certain forum categories? Like if there was a password you had to type in to view "Forum Management" here at DP. ??? Plz help, thank you.
Yes, each forum can have it's own password, but it's one password for everyone, not a different one for each user, additionally, you could use usergroups for this and set it so group A can access forum A, but not forum B and so forth.
That second part is more practical... However, if you set it up that way, be very careful about snooping members creating alternate accounts to get into forum A when they should only be looking at forum B. Also, I'd suggest a general discussion area where the clan members can be friends, and for a place to build up content to find possible new recruits.
thx alot guys, the usergroup thing is much easier to manage and yeah, im sure some people will try to snoop around anyways heh .. but oh wells. Overall they all rep the same clan, so everyone is pretty much cool with each otehr its just getting so huge they/we had to make seperate clans as the member count is in the hundreds, and competing game clan sites (like gamebattles.com) only allow 25 to a team ...