Solved A notice when posting?

Is there some way of offering the user a short notice when they are about to post? Perhaps as a pop up, or something in the text displayed?

For example, I want to tell users not to post other sites when they are posting in the forums because it is not fair to the user base.

Thanks much

Of course, anything is possible (but everything has a price). Yes, I'm sure it's possible to develop a "hassle screen"/popup prompt to appear whenever you (or your users) compose a new message on your forum. Remember, of course, that after a while, you and your users may become tired of seeing a prompt that looks like

I mean something less annoying, like a one liner in the header or something. I've seen in other forums, it's just a notice about posting.

lewism wrote: I mean something less annoying, like a one liner in the header or something. I've seen in other forums, it's just a notice about posting.

Of course. I was replying to your suggestion to use a "popup"; popups are, in my opinion, often annoying.

Of course, you could put something in your forum "rules" page, your site "terms of use page", a "forum announcement" or in the "category header". Unfortunately, just as we also have a terms of use page here, at this site, as just as we also have forum announcemnts and we try to put heplful text in the category header (see at the top of this page as an example), people don't necessarily look at it and we sometimes have to remind them about what we expect when people use the forum here.

It's just one of those things, I guess. Educating users; damn near impossible job.

Sorry, I should edit that to mean a banner or notice or something along those lines.
I agree that popups are immensely annoying.

I was hoping to have something which catches the users eye when they are about to post, perhaps reminding them of something in one line, such as no mention of other sites, etc.

Thank you, I'll probably end up writing a rules page, probably the best idea.

lewism wrote: Sorry, I should edit that to mean a banner or notice or something along those lines.

Yes, you could create a banner and put it somewhere that cateches your users' eyes, like this, perhaps:



And, using the information in Module Positions there are many places on your forum where you could put that banner.

Does this adequately answer your question?