Staff can Post Hidden Posts

Alright, this Modification is a port of my 3.0.0 Version here.

Short description:

This mod allows you and your moderators, to post hidden posts, which will be visible just to your staff, but not to the users, which will allow you to have comfortable conversations about an issue directly within a thread, withoput users noticing.

There is no more to say. The modification is installed here since a long time and no problems appeared, but i still consider it as a beta version, right now, until usertest have approved it as well

Enjoy

[theArchitect]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Stefan would it not be better to store the post in another state?

0 is active 1 is moderated why not use 2? active but hidden or something? Unless I'm not understanding how this works.

Yeah, that would rock.

[Xenon]

@Zak: nope, as 2 would show a post as deleted

the way it is now is the easiest way to achieve the goal, and it was like this since the vb2 version by chen. If i would change that, it would ned to update all other hidden posts, also would include a lot more security checks, and therefore would make installing a lot harder...

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Xenon

@Zak: nope, as 2 would show a post as deleted

the way it is now is the easiest way to achieve the goal, and it was like this since the vb2 version by chen. If i would change that, it would ned to update all other hidden posts, also would include a lot more security checks, and therefore would make installing a lot harder...

What states are there now? Why not update to 4? 8? 16? ;-p

[theArchitect]

Originally Posted by Xenon

@Zak: nope, as 2 would show a post as deleted

the way it is now is the easiest way to achieve the goal, and it was like this since the vb2 version by chen. If i would change that, it would ned to update all other hidden posts, also would include a lot more security checks, and therefore would make installing a lot harder...

As I don't have to put in the hard work to make such an idea work... Could you release an "advanced" version of this hack which does just this?

It would seriously rock.

[dakuda]

I installed the hack, but it slowed the system down quite a bit. On a forum with typically 400-600 members online at most times of the day. Since it is installed here, I wonder what the difference is? Looking at the #'s onine right now, both here and jeepforum.com are similiar.

I installed it, did the templte edits, and boom, slow down. Undid the edits and uninstalled and everything was back to normal.

It works great on the other forum though, with almost no traffic. I just thought I would share the experience.

[theArchitect]

Very strange. It would be interested to hear what might have caused this. But I am surprised it is this hack as it just uses the inbuilt vB moderation cue. Which I would not think would slow down a system.

[dakuda]

Originally Posted by theArchitect

Very strange. It would be interested to hear what might have caused this. But I am surprised it is this hack as it just uses the inbuilt vB moderation cue. Which I would not think would slow down a system.

i didn't get it either, but it is the only thing I can think of. Perhaps the can_moderate part was doing it? It's not like we arent' using that elsewhere though, so I reallyhave no clue.

[lordi]

Xenon , when i post a hidden a one, the user must reply to see the hidden right?

[Zachery]

can_moderate could cause some overhead, you might want to replace can_moderate with a is_member_of($bbuserinfo, x,y,z)

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Zachery

can_moderate could cause some overhead, you might want to replace can_moderate with a is_member_of($bbuserinfo, x,y,z)

Does it cause overhead in the php/xml files or just the templates?