Message Editing Hierarchy

Have you ever noticed that Admins and Super Moderators can edit/delete/peak everyone's messages in your forum? This also applies to Moderators for the board they are assigned.

Normally this shouldn't be a problem, but on bigger sites with a lot of Mod's it could lead to problems sometimes.
This is a Plugin version of my vb3.0 hack i released here,

After applying the hack default editing permissions in your board will be changed like this:

• Moderators: Can edit everyone's posts in the forum they're assigned, UNLESS author is another Moderator, SuperMod or Admin.
• SuperModerators: Can edit everyone's post in all boards UNLESS author is another SuperMod or Admin.
• Admins: Can edit eveyone's post in all boards UNLESS user is another Admin
• SuperAdmins: Can edit eveyone's post in all boards (Superadmins are defined in config.php)

So the hack will apply a "message editing hierarchy" in your board and everyone will be able to edit messages for ones who are below him and cant touch messages of his superiors..If they try, they'll get no permission page. This will apply for editing the messages, deleting the message via edit message or just peaking inside it. But be warned: messages can still be deleted via "Delete Thread / Posts" menu..

If you install this plugin, please click install, thank you..

Enjoy!
Xenon

[utw-Mephisto]

Is this now actually working for RC2 too ?

[Noonster]

Is this fully working for Gold version yet?

Cheers
Darren

[Xenon]

no idea, i was on holidays, so don't have installed gold yet, but i don't think it doesn't work

but it's just a plugin so, just test it, and if it doesn'T work as you like it, you can always deactivate it without any risk

[VBUsers]

i installed it but there are bugs.

1) my co admins can go into the edit field and see the post but when they edit and save it doesnt post the typed info. it does the job by not allowing but theres no error message popping up. im on 3.5.1 .

and also i have added a custom co admin usergroup how do i make them follow the same hierarchy or does it do it automatically.

[Xenon]

about the second: that's done automatically.
the hack is based on permissions, not on usergroups, so if they have access to the acp they're counted as admins

as for 1, that may be due to the new functionality, this hack was written for Beta 1, but the edit system has totally changed regarding that DAMN Ajax

[VBUsers]

ok thanks sounds good. i guess ill wait for the 3.5.1 upgrade.

[DocBenny]

Ok how do I install this into my forum... Nothing happens when I click install..haha

Do I do it through admin cp or what?

[Xenon]

yep

please refer to vbulletin manual to find out how to install plugins!

[DocBenny]

I uploaded it.. I was able to edit a message of another super-admin account

I'm not sure if it's working right.. I'm a super-admin, should I be able to edit another super-admin?

[DocBenny]

Ok tested it with a temp admin.. It works..but it's weird in a way; there's no error page displayed, instead you think you're actually editing the message, but once you click on save...that post you were editing becomes just plain text in white background with no postbit. This fixes itself once you hit refresh page.. And you see that nothing has been done to that post.

I would have preferred an error page or something.. that whitebackgroungd with just text without poster information right after clicking save scared me a bit.