Originally Posted by Duke

I know my response doesn't really relate to your functionality/modability question but I'd like to add input from another direction if you don't mind?

As webmasters/forum owners/admins/staff, we're constantly being bombarded with decisions that directly affect the health of our online communities. What you should have are clear guidelines on what constitutes acceptable forum behavior backed up by clear policing guidelines and a history of clear and decisive infraction based policing.

If this user/users are habitual troublemakers then you police them based off the infractions they commit. If their spamming to pad their post counts simply warn them such action will result in a 10 or 100 or 1000 post reduction in their total count. It's extremely simple to login to mysql and alter a users post count (if you need a how to I'll gladly provide one) to alter any information contained in the db.

CMS's are great as they allow for endless config. possibilities but regardless of how feature rich and robust they may get, there will always be those that test your sites imposed limits. The only way to ensure your site runs in the manner you wish is to draw a line in the sand and enforce it.

I'd also suggest that you create a policing forum with ban and warning sections and create a user based infraction history. This way all future policing will be done off fact instead of someones hazy memory which is not only fair but unarguable.

Again, my apologies for hitting this tangent but I firmly believe the answer to site issues is not always mod/addon related, much can be solved with solid forum policy and a staff that is willing to stand behind it.

Originally Posted by coldblooded

Unfortunately phpbb2 doesn't have the ability to limit post counts on certain forums or threads. There is most likely a mod that would add this option, but you would need to try it on a test board to make sure it's compatible with the nuke port.

phpbb3 does have this option without mods, there is a phpbb3 nuke bridge available here.