I think Sully02 had a great idea. I'll check your mods out, and I'll include the "Warner ID" as a setting in the AdminCP. Check back later today, if the twins allow me to work on it.

Rgds
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John

As I said before, I liked the idea of a covered warner, so I did some changes in the database and the files/templates to make it a "consistent" feature of the hack. A text file is attached here, with the required modifications.

I hope you enjoy it.

While doing this, I also discovered a strange behaviour, in the Warning Options section of AdminCP. So, I changed the code a bit to correct it. The changes you should do, are described in the second attached file. All those who have implemented my "Allow multiple warnings for the same post?" option and the "Send PM to the warned member?" option, should do these changes, or else these features will not function properly.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Finally, since the Warning Options part of AdminCP is getting a bit large as it is (it shows both the warning options, the defined offenses and allows you to add a new offence), I decided to separate them a bit, in order to make things more manageable. A third file is attached, which explains how to separate the Warning Options from the Warning Types.

I hope you enjoy.

Rgds
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John

Yes, members forward those types of PM's to admins.

I don't mind if it uses the exact same warning types. Well, either way is fine really. The non-post-related warnings we use are "siggie violation" "avatar violation" or "PM spam" - so we can isolate these out of the other warning types if that is easier.

As for where to place it, the logical places seem to me to be ..
.. a) from the user profile (same concept aas the link called "user options" that takes you to the admin cp
.. b) from the admin cp directly (either while editing a user or as a part of the warn system, like a new point called "warn a member" or something.
.. c) from the drop-down when you click in a member's name from inside a thread (along with "view __'s profile, view __'s home page, send __ a private message" etc.
.. d) as an option within the postbit mini-profile square thinigie that shows up beside (or above - depending on if you use legacy or not) each post.

Isn't it supposed to send a PM?

Or is that just some add-on that I didn't use? (I only used the original files from post 1.)

I would really like a PM sent from the "warner" (not anonyous).

Can anybody help? It isn't happening now. :(

Thanks again sv1 :)

Can the option to enable "anonymous" warnings, or changing the ID or the warner - be turned on/off in the admin panel so we dont get moderator abuse?

Yes Sir, it is an administrator option. If you define something there, all PMs will be issued by that account, if not, every PM is send by each ... warner.

Keep in mind, that the admin and the other mods can always see who the real warner is. It's just the warned user who sees the dedicated account, and this is only shown in the PM he receives.

Rgds

I think there are some missing phrases here?

With as many mods as you've made to this hack and the amount of contribution you've made, I say that you take all your modifications to this hack and release it as an add-on hack. There's so much!

Yeah, I knew I didn't wrote everything down! That's why I am not doing this for a living, you know. I am not good at recording things!!

LoL, yes, the missing phrases are easy to assume, one is something along the lines "Old warnings, issued before the specified period, have been pruned" and should be named "warnings_pruned" and the other should be something like "Old Warnings were not pruned" and should be named "warnings_npruned", both in the Control Panel Stop Messages.

Sorry about that.

Rgds

Here is another option I am pondering...

Perhaps a "Statute of limitations" in regards to how long you have to warn a post. The reason I bring this up is because a moderator could be viewing a thread that has some replies from a few weeks ago, sees something he/she deems warn-worthy and issues a warning. The problem is, at the time, nobody found the post in question to be a problem.

I think something that says "After a post has been up for x hours/days/whatever time increment, a warning cannot be issued for it" would be a superb addition. Anybody else agree?