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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[Leo Brazil]

Today I've noticed something strange with. If try to post the same thing (same post) it didn't check as usual for a duplicate post and it's added to the original message. Can someone confirm this ?

[Paul M]

Nope, trying that I get the following (as expected) ;

This post is a duplicate of a post that you have posted in the last five minutes.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by MTGDarkness

The editor works correctly when I turn off plugins/products alltogether, but if I just turn off this product, nothing changes. I would assume it's another plugin, but this only started happening after I installed yours. How would I check if another one is clashing with this one?

Turn them on one by one until it breaks ?

[MTGDarkness]

Yeah, but how do I uninstall the thing it did? Because when I disable it, it doesn't come undone.

Also, is there any good way to narrow the search? Because I have a few dozen products installed, including arcade, url rewrite, Itrader... It would take a long time to disable and check all of them, and members would notice.

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

It is working perfect when I double post, but when other people double post it is not merging their posts. I have it set as default. both settings 0 and 0

I am going to uninstall this since it is not working and I have noticed my server load has increased.

[Keyser S?ze]

by how much has it increased?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by MTGDarkness

Yeah, but how do I uninstall the thing it did? Because when I disable it, it doesn't come undone.

Disabling and uninstalling this are the same thing as its purely plugin based. The most likely reason it breaks is either you have a custom style (with custom editor_clientscript) or some other plugin is editing the editor clientscript. Impossible to say. This appends code to the editor_clientscript template (code).

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

I am going to uninstall this since it is not working and I have noticed my server load has increased.

It works fine, and has no effect on server load, so I would suggest you look at your server more closely.

[MTGDarkness]

Now, see, that just can't be right... It was the vBulletin Link Canonicals! ROFLMAO!

[Paul M]

Is that a mod ?

[Leo Brazil]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Nope, trying that I get the following (as expected) ;

In think that could be a problem with some of my users connection (bouncing or something) because even when I was not using your mod, I've noticed some double (exactly the same) posts for some users, even with Vb flood checking like you mentioned. But always when I tried to reproduce the only thing I can get is vB message of double post.