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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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

[davidpowell]

Hey thanks for this it is working perfectly,

I have one problem though... Cannot figure out how to change the settings you mentioned, like time colour etc. Is this done in the admin-cp or manually by editing the xml file?

[Paul M]

ACP > vBulletin Options > Doublepost Prevention .

[hinomaru]

nice mod, i installed the mod. I want to ask how to not count the vbcredits point if the post merged?Because i found that the vbcredits still counted when the post merged.

Thanks

[Paul M]

Sorry, you would need to ask the author of vbcredits about that.

[ErrorLog]

Thanks nice hack.

Installed.

[spankaveli]

is there a hack like this compatible with 3.7 that gives the option to allow (or disallow) certain subforums?

[John Danley]

Works good. Thanks.

[ry215]

Originally Posted by mad@Max

Nice work! But what about time zones? All see one time zone?

Same question, any idea?

Thanks.

[Paul M]

There is no facility to take account of timezones as the timestamp is physical text in the post.

[ry215]

Originally Posted by Paul M

There is no facility to take account of timezones as the timestamp is physical text in the post.

Thanks, but i see vborg to do this

Example in this Topic, post #3
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=219311

All times are GMT +2.


All times are GMT +8.