Zoints Anonymous Posting - Improved Privacy for Members
 

Have you ever wanted to discuss something on a forum but never posted because you didn't want people to know it was you? To solve this problem, we created an anonymous posting hack.

Via the admin control panel, you can easily choose which forum(s) allows for anonymous posting.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png


For anonymous enabled forums, your members then get this handly little checkbox (unchecked by default) when making a new thread or post.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png


If they check the box, then their post is created under the account you setup and assign as the anonymous poster. I personally created an "anonymous" username, but you can create whatever you want.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png


As forum owners, we all know that a few members will choose to screw around with this feature. Therefore we created an easy means to identify who created an anonymous thread/post should the need arise. Please be ethical and tell your members you can see who posted anonymously should the need arise. You can check the log by going here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png


And the log looks something like this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/04/1.png

Official support for this modification will take place at http://network.zoints.com in this forum.


Enjoy, click install, check out Zoints' other hacks, have a great day, and all that happy jive.

We always used this avatar for our anonymous account. You're welcome to use it if so desire:

http://img3.zoints.com/anon/anon.png

I can see some instances where this hack would be useful. I'll click install and check back later.

Thanks.



Edit: Didn't notice this was for 3.5.5. 3.6.2 is here if anyone needs it.

does this work with quick reply?

Fantastic, thanks so much have been waiting for something like this.

Just one question - if a person forgets to do anon is there anyway the post can be edited to change it to anon

Not at this time, sorry.

No, that is one of the present limitations of this hack. I'm sure it can be remeidied in future builds.

click install :D

Is there a way to set anonymous by default?

great hack!