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Originally Posted by harmor19

How are people supposed to select which forums to apply this too? In your last screen shot you have an option to enable the feature.

Hello:

I thought I would share a bit about how I'm using this hack, hopefully to provide others with more information about its possible uses.

My site is an unauthorized rants and information forum for players of the on line game EverQuest II.

Ody kindly volunteered to write this hack after another user requested the ability to maintain and update a list within a thread. I am brand new to vBulletin and don't have a lot of expertise with this software or the related technology. So I did a little research and was surprised to learn that the document edit times in admincp apply globally for users, and I wasn't able to assign edit rights to a single user for a single document.

This hack was important to my site, which is a flames board for users to argue about events and information involving a competitive on line game. At first, the edit rights on my board were set to 24 hours.

The problem with a long edit time was that some users would start very inflammatory threads against others, but would then try and cut their losses and delete their posts when public opinion turned against them. This left my site with several multi page threads where the original poster deleted half the posts in a thread, and all that remained were posts with opposing views. That basically killed these threads, you couldn't follow them with only one side of the story, and this resulted in many complaints. So after taking a vote from my users, I reduced the edit time for all users to just 15 minutes. The shorter edit time has worked very well for us, but I admit I wouldn't like it on a "normal" forum site.

I had several users that wanted to maintain lists of information that could be changed and updated daily in the first post of a thread. Ody's design is perfect for my site, because it allows me, as Admin, to click once in any post, in any thread on my site, to override the global edit time and allow the user who made the post to edit it whenever they want.

So in summary, this hack allows anyone signed in as Admin to override the global edit time on a post with one click, so the user who made the post can edit it anytime they want. To answer the question above, the hack applies to all forums. The hack only gives edit rights to the user who made the post, and does not grant edit rights to other posts in the same thread or elsewhere.

I feel like this is an extremely elegant solution for anyone who would like to override the global edit timer for users on demand for the purpose of giving give edit rights to one user for one post.

By the way, I have this installed with vers. 3.6.2, I've tested it extensively, and it works perfectly with the different skins on my site.

Thanks again to Ody.