Doublepost Prevention Plus
 

This is complete rework of Xenon mod, that's not supported for a long time.

Difference:

• No problems with quickpost & AJAX
• Attachments supported
• Easy groups ignore support
• Hooks for customisation

What this mod do:

If user creates 2 sequent posts in a short time, those are merged. That helps to keep your forum clear and prevent topicks bumping.

Setup:

Just import product and change necessary settings. No any edits required.

If you limit posts edit time, it's recommended to make merge time === edit time.

PS. Should work with 3.7.x too, but tested only with 3.7.4.

Sound better than old one

Thanks for sharing this :)

Could you describe a little better how it deals with IMG and attachemnts ? e.g. Does it consider number of file on permissions or it the second post (the double one) has IMG or attachments merge are not made ?

Thanks for sharing.

Preventing equal post duplication is embedded into vB, and this feature is left intact. This mod goal is to merge DIFFERENT sequent posts of the same author.

Merged post = Old post text + separator(optional) + New post text.
Merged attachments = Old post attachments + New post attachments.

I'm not shure, that understang your question.

I got your idea, specially on the second situation you mentioned. What happens for example if Old post has 3 attachements and New post has another 3 different ones but I have a 5 attachments set as a limit ? How about IMGs ?

If install this product and quick reply will be set automatic and saw one post or refresh and one post...?

If post is not merged, then AJAX will be used, with no full page reload.

If post is megred, then page will be refreshed via redirect. It's the same, as if you try to do quickpost not from the last thread page, you can check :)

That's acceptable tradeoff to have mod with no code edits and compatible with future vb releases. I hate mods, that require code edits. That's a big headache after each vb upgrade.

Attachments will be megred with no limit control (i suspect that's not a big deal, if you have global limit for user group :) ).

Then post is "reparsed". I'm not sure, but if IMG limit is checked in parcer, then result will be the same, as if user try to excceed IMG tag limit in first post. The same for smiles count limits. You'd better to check yourself.

thanks m8 i cant believe something like this is not built into vb as itshould be standard. Marked as installed

Any tips how I can not make effected this to any thread opener on their threads?

Sorry, I'm a bit limited in time to provide help with coding. Just do "what should be done" for my project, and share results with community.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this. :)

Tested it now for a couple of Hours - absolutely excellent - no Problems!

Thanks, but on 3.8 AJAX don't work:(

I dont saw before post and after time... :(

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....37&postcount=8

It should NOT work, if merge happens. And works in other cases. Not a big deal.

???

Don?t know what you mean. :confused:

Everything works perfect at me with 3.8.1.

I dont saw any message and time....

e.g

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1052

This will not be ever added into post text, because it's impossible to make a correct time look for different time zones. May be, "edited by" field can solve your problem. If not - then I'm sorry.

I disappoint. In my turn, i hate when the page is reloaded:)

I dont understand.... :(

How about: Added after xx time (sec., min., hour)

Edit message put "Double Post" and all its ok with time and excellent job Vitaly..!!!Thanks very much.....

May be... At least, sounds reasonable.

Personally, I consider all those kind of separators and "edited by" - completely useless noise. But if I'll do future fixes for this mod, I'll try to add this.

Can't promiss, that it will happen very soon, because I have to polish another mods first. Migrated from IPB to vB in december 15 and still have a huge number of urgend things to do.

seems to be working good to my vB 3.6.8 PL2 board...

:p:up:

Mark as Installed
Nominated
Rated Excellent

best regards...

i have problem with mod Smilies in Quick Reply. I show two couple of smiles. How i can resolve this problem?

one little tip

you could also check in the "cache templates" plugin for THIS_SCRIPT and just cache it, if it's needed;)

No ideas, what you mean. Please, provide detailed description of steps and (if possible) - screenshots.

Well done! Thank you for your addon.

Suggestion:
Could you pls include an option to disable this mod for specific forums? Sometime it is useful not to merge every new posting.

Thanks for notice. That's not critical, so i'll upload fix later. Don't like frequent changes :) .

May be later... can't promiss for sure. But there're hooks, that can be used by addons. For example, I have custom product "trade area" (too specific to publish here), ant it sets different merge time on some forums.

thanks

I agree with you. But it was a nice to have for everyone who wants it.

Nice to have you at the lovely vBulletin-Family. ;)

Did you request permission from Xenon to use his work?

woot last night , I was hopeing for a better version then the other one, my hopes have come true!

Are you joking? I've used this feature for ages at IPB. vB doesn't have it and doesn't had hight quality coded addons to solve this problem.

What permissions are you asking about? Links to Xenon's mod exists, because some things can't be done in another way, but his product is outdated and a bit useless. And nobody cared about proper solution for 2 years.

So the answer is no, you did not request permission to use his work?

For example, kind of like the comments and phrases in there that are identical to Xenon's mod?

If a mod is outdated, unless permission is given, it is not reason to just fix and release. When an author creates a piece of work, that author holds the copyright to that work unless given permission to allow someone else to use it, whether it be marked re-usable, or given verbally or written.

hum, did you make the same assumptions when Paul M released his own version (used here!)...

Davidw,

My native language is Russian, and my English is not good enougth. If you think, that english letters and phrases are copyrighted, it's not a problem to change. I hope, anyone will help me.

I own project, linked in my profile. And I have full time hired programmers too. I'm not sure, that there any kind of "copyrighted work", that i need to use to solve my problems. I can't be hired for money and I'm able to share my hight quality work for free, without asking any gratices or benefits. Link to Xenon's mod was given to better explain, that this mod does.

If you think, that my publicathion violates some rules - remove it. That will be a headache of community, but not mine. My time is a bit expencive, to spend it for unclear copyright complains.