Hi,

One nice way this could be implemented is if we add custom templates per forum. Right now you could hack it in quite easy by just editing the forum view template:

<%if forum_id == 5%>
.. format things differently
<%else%>
.. format things normally
<%endif%>

as everything else is handled by permissions. You could make a single user/group have post permissions, everyone else only has read/reply permissions.

As for hiding it on the main page, this could be done in the templates as well:

<%if forum_id == 5%>
<%next%>
<%endif%>

and it will skip forum id 5 from the list. It's not quite "out of the box", but is reasonable easy to put in.

Cheers,

Alex
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