I want to make ALL forums unavailable for new...

[Jazhawk]

...members until they post in a welcome forum.  I don't even want the forums visible to new members. How can I do that? Or if I create a group for newbies, I want the welcome letter to say they most post in the welcome forum.  When that is done, we could manually move them to the open forums. I want to limit lurking.

-Jazhawk

[Trekkie101]

Sett he newbie group to "0" posts and set the next group to not based off posts and manually move them at will and limit the Newbies to 1 forum

[Jazhawk]

 I'm doing my taxes and it seems my brain is too fried to figure this out. 

Thanx.

-Jazhawk

[Amacythe]

I have done exactly that at my forum.  I have a member group that is post based called unproven/suspended members, Number of Required Posts 0.  Then I reset the number of Required Posts for Newbie to 1.

Then I went and changed my board permissions for each board other than my Welcome Forum to allow all other post groups but not the unproven/suspended members.