Chen,
Would it be possible on only the hidden messages to not have the "Quote with Reply" button or the quote box? That way, we would never have to worry about any mods accidentally quoting the message or replying to a hidden message. :)

I'm getting a database error in showthread when I tried to install this on 2.2.6.

Can someone please confirm that this works on 2.2.6, after that I'll know I am making a mistake and can figure it out.

Yes this works. What is the error?

It's already uninstalled, but I must have done something wrong if it defiantly works. I'll try re-installing much more carefully, since it was last night..

Addon for Firefly's Hidden Newreply Post Hack.
(By Boofo)

NOTE: You MUST have Firefly's Hidden Newreply Post Hack installed for this to work.

Thanks goes out to Velocd for giving me this idea and showing me the code. And thanks also goes out to Nakkid since I used the javascript blinking text code from his blinking header PMs hack.

What this hack does:

It will show a blinking text of your choice for the hidden reply post. This should make the post more noticable and stand out for Moderators and Admins who don't know the hidden post is there.

Please let me know what you think of it. :)

Thanks FireFly, great hack!

@Boofo - I had changed my text to a fairly verbose statement warning that the post was hidden to all but Mods/Admin, and admonishing them from quoting or commenting on it. When I installed your addon, I found it difficult to read, unless the blink rate was set to a very long interval, and then it looked funny blinking so darn slow! :( I will be sticking with large, bold, red, underlined text for now, sans blinking. Great work though, thanks for putting out the effort!

Your original suggestion of disabling the quote button would be an additional margin of safety, and is one I would still love to see implemented. [/subtle hint]

I found a simple way (thanks to Xenon) of making this happen. First, install Logician's Dynamic Templates Hack. and then you can do it right in the template without having to edit any php files to do this. It works great! ;)

I found a bug in this hack. If you hide a post and use the Spin threads hack (or whatever else) to validate it, it will unhide the post. If you get a disgruntled Mod, they could simply validate the post and unhide it. Is there a way to make a hidden post immune to any sort of validation?

Has anyone ever figured out a way to make hidden posts not show up on the validations lists?

hi,

find this code:
with:
my code is:

what can i do :( :knockedout:

edit: ups that was not my line sorry, i find it:-)

how would I add this to the quick reply template?

I know this is old, but has it been fixed?
this could be a major security flaw,

if you have a forum that you want to have the posts validated by a mod
not only do posts waiting validation show on the mod cp, but also ALL the hidden posts created with this hack...

considering some forums may have hundreds of hidden replies, they would all show up with a default validate yes
the only work around i can see is to run a query making default NO to validate, it may stop accidental unhiding of posts
(without getting into this hack being re-written)