Prevent Doubleposting

When a User posts into a thread where he already has the lastpost, no new post will be added. The lastpost of him will be edited and the new text is put after his first message.
This will be done until the old post is older than 24 hours (you can change this timespan yourself)

Nothing more to say about that, it's the quite same as my vb3.0 version.

This Mod should run with 3.6 as well


** Please make sure you ENABLE this product after you install it - it is disabled by default. **

For vb 3.8 there are two alternative updates ;

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=203705
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204177

[Xenon]

Originally Posted by mtha

can we extend the condition, so that only posts sorter than xx lines or xx characters, are merged. Longer posts are stays seperated

those things can be added easily

you just have to manipulate the if condition when a post is considered as doublepost just add a AND strlen($post[message]) <= 30 and just posts shorter than 30 chars will be merged.

[Boofo]

What post length would be a good length to set this at?

[Xenon]

hmm, personally i'd say up to 5 lines around 400 chars would be a good lenghth, but that depends on personal views..

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Xenon

hmm, personally i'd say up to 5 lines around 400 chars would be a good lenghth, but that depends on personal views..

So it would look like this with that added, right?

PHP Code:

 if ($type != 'thread' 
AND !in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], array(5,6,7))
AND $threadinfo['lastpost'] > TIMENOW - $dp_settings['timespan'] 
AND $threadinfo['lastposter'] == $vbulletin->userinfo['username'])
AND strlen($post['message']) <= 400
{ 


[Xenon]

apart from wrong placed brackets, yes

[Boofo]

You mean like this?

PHP Code:

 if ($type != 'thread' 
AND !in_array($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'], array(5,6,7))
AND $threadinfo['lastpost'] > TIMENOW - $dp_settings['timespan'] 
AND $threadinfo['lastposter'] == $vbulletin->userinfo['username']
AND strlen($post['message']) <= 400)
{ 


[Xenon]

yep

[Boofo]

Thank you, sir.

If you can figure out a way to do a plug-in on this (product), I could make settings for the usergroups and string length.

[mtha]

look like boofo got right into the idea.

Thank you very much Xenon

PHP Code:

AND strlen($post['message']) <= 400) 


Boofo, use

PHP Code:

    $dp_settings = array(
        'timespan' => 3600 * 24,// how many seconds after the last post the new post is defined as doublepost
        'spacer' => "\n\n",    // What should be between the old post and the new one (default: two empty lines)
        'editedbymsg' => 'Automerged Doublepost', // If left blank no edited by will appear
        'maxchars' => 400, // Max chars where post is merged.
    ); 


and

PHP Code:

AND strlen($post['message']) <=  $dp_settings['maxchars'] ) 


well, should you exclude Unregistered Users from the post, or checking IPs for those unregistered too? otherwise, you wont know "which unregistered user" post what

[Xenon]

Unregistred users use usernames as well afaik, they are just not registred.