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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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

[boggseric]

Quick question, I am just looking to prevent double posts from ajax lag, am I correct in thinking that if I take out the two '* 60' occurrences in plugin #2 the time value will then be in seconds? I really don't care if the users spam I just want to detect exact duplicate posts and stop them.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by boggseric

Quick question, I am just looking to prevent double posts from ajax lag, am I correct in thinking that if I take out the two '* 60' occurrences in plugin #2 the time value will then be in seconds?

Yes, that would be correct.

[stardotstar]

Hi Paul, thanks for this mod! I am a big fan of your work and understand how busy you are especially with porting to 4 - (I havn;t taken the plunge yet).

I really only need this function for my for sale/classifieds forum; how difficult would it be to change the mod so that instead of a list of "excluded" forums you could define only certain "included" forums.

ie I have lots of forums and sub forums and only one of them needs this hack - well actually the entire site may ultimately benefit from it but the problem with people bumping for sale threads is not one that will be solved with 120min limit - I may need to set it to several days and for the main forums that will be possibly a bit long - instead I would like to set the limit very high and apply "anti-bumping" only to my forsale forum.

I ask this only if you can conceive a way of doing it easily! (manual editing would be fine from my POV)

Again, thanks for sharing your work and being so prompt with replies and support! I don't know how you do it - but I guess it has something to do with the Dr. Pepper; so I might try that some time

Will

[Paul M]

Drop me a PM and I'll have a look in the next few days to see if that would be an easy edit.

[stardotstar]

Excellent mod, great support, thanks Paul!

Final question (I hope) the forum exempt list applies only to the specified forums IDs does it not? ie to exempt a child forum it must be explicitly listed?

Thanks Paul,
Will

[Paul M]

Yes, every forum must be individually specified.

[iRO Wiki]

Excellent! The only thing I miss is the edit notice about the posts being merged but I can live with that.

Thanks a bunch!

[imported_silkroad]

Hi Paul,

I noticed you have two templates that only have JS in them:

editor_clientscript
editor_clientscript_pdp

Can we include this with the other JS as follows:

vbulletin_textedit.js

Or perhaps in another

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ourcdn.site.com/clientscript/that_code_in_the_tempate.js"></script>

... instead of including it via a template?

It is OK?

Thanks

[CvP]

Originally Posted by Paul M

No, it doesnt work properly on vbulletin 4.

First of all, unless you fudge the product file, you cannot install it on 4.0

However, if you do install it on 3.x , then it will only work in a fashion, in so much as it will merge the posts, however the [ajax] display code will not work, so you will get multiple copies of the post displayed.

JFYI, Im currently testing a 4.0 version.

Paul, this is the single most required mod for any forums.
even if you can not completely port it to vB4, just the auto merging double/triple posts will be a life saver.
All other feature can be disabled until you get time. pretty please

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by CvP

Paul, this is the single most required mod for any forums.
even if you can not completely port it to vB4, just the auto merging double/triple posts will be a life saver.
All other feature can be disabled until you get time. pretty please

The 4.x version was released in January and last updated in March: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233234