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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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

[nNJ]

I'm having a bit of trouble with this.

When a user double posts, the new post is merged with the old post.. but he new post is posted as well.

Example

Post number 1

Post 1 text
------------------------Posts Automatically Merged-------------------------
post 2 text

post number 2

post 2 text

Anyone else having this problem or know how to solve it?

[Dimoks]

3.8.2 all ok... but mod don't working if one post have attachment
please help me!

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by bigcurt

Hi Paul! Does this work for 3.6.X? Thanks.

No idea, but you cannot install it (on non 3.8) unless you edit the dependancies in the xml.

[nNJ]

Originally Posted by nNJ

I'm having a bit of trouble with this.

When a user double posts, the new post is merged with the old post.. but he new post is posted as well.

Example

Post number 1



post number 2


Anyone else having this problem or know how to solve it?

Any Idea as to why its doing that? I happens via quick reply and normal reply

[bigcurt]

Hi Paul! How are you? I am posting to ask if you can give different time permissions to different usergroups. I have one usergroup I would like to be able to bump their thread once every 24 hours and another be able to bump once every 12 hours.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by nNJ

Any Idea as to why its doing that? I happens via quick reply and normal reply

I would guess that something else you have installed must be intefering.

Originally Posted by bigcurt

Hi Paul! How are you? I am posting to ask if you can give different time permissions to different usergroups. I have one usergroup I would like to be able to bump their thread once every 24 hours and another be able to bump once every 12 hours.

Sorry, I dont have any plans to do that (or any other changes atm).

Originally Posted by Dimoks

3.8.2 all ok... but mod don't working if one post have attachment
please help me!

That is by design (it is how the original worked, and I have not changed it).

[nNJ]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I would guess that something else you have installed must be intefering.

Found the conflict, thanks.

[bigcurt]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I would guess that something else you have installed must be intefering.



Sorry, I dont have any plans to do that (or any other changes atm).




That is by design (it is how the original worked, and I have not changed it).

Ugh, that is what I figured. OK, no problem. I suppose I can just put it at 12 hours and keep punishing those who do it more than once and aren't allowed.

[mariocaz]

Hi Paul,

Could I install this mod in my 3.7.6 ??

Thanx.

[Paul M]

See post #183