No Increase Post Count For Short Posts

[ForumsMods]

No Increase Post Count For Short Posts

Description:
Choose how many characters a post must have in order to increase the member's post count

Installation:

Import "product-noincrease_shortposts.xml" as a product, overwrite if it's already installedWhere to set option:
Forums & Moderators Manager-> Forum Manager-> Edit Forum-> Minimum Characters Per Post

Languages:
- English

History:
28-12-10: v4.0 First Release

This hack is created for your use free of charge. No payment is requested. However, if you would like to donate money for the work I put in to this hack, a donation would show your appreciation.

[Olgi]

Installed it successfully and marked it as installed!

Very good product which will surely be useful

Cheers

[Sephentos]

Isnt there a way to set this globally? My board has over 54 Forums. Imagine how much work this is.

[ForumsMods]

When you install, autmatically set to post min chars value.
So, before install change post min chars value and then install.

[pablete]

When you install, autmatically set to post min chars value.
So, before install change post min chars value and then install.

Thank's for the mod and this...

[Cyamia]

This is really cool! Good for big forum; not mine yet!

[onehost]

so how many char would you recommend before it is considered a good post?

[furnival]

Works great in VB 3.8.1. I changed the post min chars post value before importing it and that also worked great. Personally I've set my minimum value to 100 characters.

[cowboy9892]

I've set my minimum value to 500 characters. :D
http://www.vedich.net

[morrow]

When you install, autmatically set to post min chars value.
So, before install change post min chars value and then install.Easy for you to say... I mean... there's only 7 references to 'postminchars' in the .xml file. I'm not a coder but I'm sure all of those references don't need to be changed.

Can you post a bit more accurate info? Thanks.

[ForumsMods]

Easy for you to say... I mean... there's only 7 references to 'postminchars' in the .xml file. I'm not a coder but I'm sure all of those references don't need to be changed.

Can you post a bit more accurate info? Thanks.
Before installing, go to ACP-> Settings-> Options-> Message Posting and Editing Options and change Minimum Characters Per Post.
Then install product, it will set by default that value. You can change back after installation.

[Justinphx]

This mod sounds great but doesn't work for 4.12 for me. Anyone know a fix for this or a similar mod? Thanks

[ozzy47]

What is the issues?

[Justinphx]

Just doesn't work. I set it for 25 min characters in the new line in forums it makes but still counts a post under 25 characters a post in a users post count. What I am trying to do is not count a smile post only towards a user post count. This seemed like it would work but it isn't for me. This mod is 3 yrs old so not sure if a update is needed.

[ozzy47]

From what I see, if you only post characters, it works, if you post a smiley, and some characters it does not work. :confused:

[ozzy47]

Actually, it don't work if the smiley is the first thing in the post.

[ozzy47]

Ok I found a way around that, edit each of your smileys and wrap them with img tags like so.

:)

[CoffeeLovesYou]

Sadly, this is bugged :(
I was hoping to use this with my forum.
If you soft-delete or delete a post that didn't count, it removes it from your post count, anyway.
For example:
Minimum Chars is 10..
"Hi there! I'm bob." - Post count goes +1, is now 1
"Hello" - Post count is still 1
"Welcome to the board!" - Post count is now 2!
Mod deletes "Hello" for rule violation.. User now has post count of 1.

Our mods soft-delete, so we can't use this unless it's fixed. :(

[CAG CheechDogg]

Sucks I never got this one to work on my forums ...the post count goes up regardless and the minimum is set to 200 in each forum ... ozzy any idea?