So I have an interesting problem that I don’t know quite how to solve.
I have a giveaway category on my forum. The problem is that some people ONLY participate in those threads, and nowhere else on the forum. I have already set the requirement of the category to trust level 1 - I am hesitant to set it to trust level 2 though. I would rather solve it another way, if at all possible.
How would you attack this problem?
I thought about making a custom “internal badge” that is awarded if you have twice as many posts in other categories than in that specific category - but that wouldn’t help much, since you can’t limit replies to people with specific badges?
That is another suggestion: In security on categories, it would be cool if we could require one or more badges to enable replying there
Maybe you could change the rules of the giveaways: When drawing a winner, make each participant’s chances depend on the number of received in the main categories of your forum. (This should probably be on a non-linear scale so newer accounts also have a chance.)
A Data Explorer query could help you to easily extract this information as needed
Category permissions are restricted by group memberships. So instead of awarding them a custom badge, add them to a custom group. Then go to category settings and set it so that the everybody can see the category but to create or reply you need to belong to the group.