Good afternoon. I have a Buy/Sell/Trade category on my site that I’d like to restrict posting in until a member “likes” the rules topic. I asked the AI Bot, and it did give me some instructions. However, it seems that it requires Discourse Automation that is only available on hosted plans. Is there…

Just in case anyone else is interested in doing this, here is a short writeup of what I did: First, you need to enable Badge SQL through your Discourse server’s CLI: ./launcher enter app rails c SiteSetting.enable_badge_sql = true Next, find the ID of the topic that you want the members to inte…

Restrict posting in a category until they "like" a topic

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Restrict posting in a category until they "like" a topic

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