New Posting Features - Doublepost Prevention

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This is an updated version of the popular modification, previously released by Xenon. It is released with his kind permission.

Basically, if member posts in a thread where they were the previous last poster, then if the conditions are met, their new post will be auto-merged into the previous post instead of creating a new "double" post.

A number of options are provided ;

Time Limit - if more than xxx minutes have passed since the last post, no merge is done.

Timestamp Spacer - if enabled, a timestamped spacer is added between the old post text and the new post text.

Post Timestamp Update - if enabled the newly merged post will have its post time updated to the new time, otherwise it retains the time of the original post.

Spacer Colour - allows you to set the colour of the spacer between merged posts.

Usergroup exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain usergroups from the doublepost merges.

Forum exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain forums form the doublepost merges.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Doublepost Prevention.


To install just unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vB 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Phrased the post separater.
v3.8.003 : Added JS Template - removing need to edit quick reply javascript file.
v3.8.004 : Updated spacer options.
v3.8.005 : Updated timestamp spacer to fix issue with large merge times.

[Paul M]

1. This has usergroup exclusions already (always has).

2. No idea what you mean by "editor".

[Spinball]

Rather than have a number of forums which are exceptions, is it possible to specify which forums I want this mod to work on? I ask because I would want it to work on a small number of forums.

[Paul M]

No, that is not currently possible.

[furst]

There should be a mechanism to allow us to set a limit on how many consecutive times a person's posts should be merged. Some of the threads on my site are just users posting pictures. This mod creates a problem in that you'll have one post with way too many images, making the page nearly impossible to load.

If it were possible to say, limit it to 5 consecutive merges, it would reduce this problem. The person would post five times and each of the posts would merge into one, and then the 6th post would start another string of 5.

[moethelawn]

Originally Posted by yankidank

All of the replys that are being merged, are being merged twice for me. For example if i paste the same content from the original post, it will show:

Whats going on here?

---------- Post added at 04:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:29 PM ----------

Whats going on here?

---------- Post added at 04:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:30 PM ----------

Whats going on here?

I have some odd problem with my forum that has been causing some users posts to be posted twice and was hoping this plugin would help fix that, but I think its only going to make it worse right now.

I can confirm that this is happening to my site. Also when quick replying, it doesn't ajax and instead says "Thanks for posting! If you posted on a poll..." etc and then reloads the whole page

You can see me test it out here: http://forums.gamerenegades.com/showthread.php?p=111848

[Paul M]

I can only guess you have some other mod installed that is clashing.

[Speedy1505]

tihs i mean
with Editor to Edit the Message ...

[Paul M]

The seperator is a phrase, you can edit it in the phrase manager just like any other vb phrase.

The "Edited By" message is pointless IMO, and I wont be adding that.

[wolfiejp]

nice one mate been looking for this

[Domainer]

Thank You added