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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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

[SloppyGoat]

I see. It's just a variable for a phrase. Why is it still merging after the time limit, though?

[SloppyGoat]

Does it do it here? No, it didn't. Why is the time limit not timing out on my forum?

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by SloppyGoat

Does it do it here? No, it didn't. Why is the time limit not timing out on my forum?

Minutes. Have you noticed that? If you set it to 1, does it work?

[SloppyGoat]

Oh! It's minutes! DOH!!! Sorry, I must not have caught that.

Yes, it's working. It was operator error. I'm so used to everything being listed in seconds.

[RaceJunkie]

If I understand this right.
1. When a member creates a post with attachments the posts do not get merged. Correct?
2. What if a member uses the image tag to ad photos to there posts and you have a 5 image limit and they create a new post under it to get all there pics posted. What happens then?

[jscieza]

Originally Posted by Stubbed

I followed the instructions in the text file regarding editing vbulletin_quick_reply.js, uploaded the product, and it all appears to work, except when I do a quick reply, the post is doubled up, and it breaks the theme. I use a custom theme, but it's not heavily modified.

Same problem here, Paul.

However it's not a real issue at all. Thank you very much for your time and your amability of share this mod with us

[RedHacker]

If put update 3.8.002 must edit "vbulletin_quick_reply.js ...?

I edit this file before update...

[jscieza]

Originally Posted by RedHacker

If put update 3.8.002 must edit "vbulletin_quick_reply.js ...?

I edit this file before update...

No since product update doesn't overwrite your vbulletin_quick_reply.js file or any other vBulletin file. When you upgrade your vBulletin to a new version then yes, you should need to re-edit the javascript file as requested in the readme file.

Hope that helps.

[Magnumutz]

Paul, i think you should edit your post and tell the users to go and download vBulletin, and get the uncompressed JavaScript version.
Cuz most don't even know there's such an option.
Make it easier for them

[Paul M]

It already says that in the big red note