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, attachments will be added to the old post as well.
This will be done until the old post is older than 1 hour (you can change this timespan yourself)
by changing $do_bump in the script, you can define wether the post's time will be altered or not.

Enjoy, and don't forget to click install

Notice: If you have installed the Proxy ip to real ip conversion or Proxy Detector v3.1 Hack, then you should probably take a look at this post.

[utw-Mephisto]

Sounds naiv, but did you try it like on 3.0.6 ?

[Imperial Fritz]

Apologies for stupidity, I had the older version

Yet it doesn't work for me, the code is there but no matter what posts aren't merged.

[Curzon564]

I found this hack and installed it immediately. It's great, finally no more users posting doubleposts/tripleposts or even more in a row.

Yet I'm having a little(?) problem.
If the post is made by the post reply button everything works fine but if post is made by quick reply (Standard Editor) page is loading endless and the "new post" doesn't appear.

Could this perhaps be because of vB 3.0.7?
As far as I remember there were some small changes in functions_newpost.php

[Xenon]

hmm, i have not looked at vb3.0.7 as for time reasons, but that would be wierd, as there shouldn't be a difference between QR posts and normal reply posts, both are calling build_new_post and thats where the changes are done.

When i have more time i'll look at it, but if you have further infos please tell me

[Oblivion Knight]

Working fine for me on 3.0.7..

[Curzon564]

Ok, tested today a little bit and found the problem

It's Opera (7.54 & JRE 1.5). IE and Firefox are working fine.
Only Opera doesn't load the new page if poste is made by quick reply.

[Xenon]

very wierd...

[Mark.B]

I am going to be controvesial. This hack is great IF you have a pre-existing problem with people spamming their post counts up or bumping threads all the time.

If you DON'T have such a problem then don't install it unless/until you do.

Quite a few people get quite annoyed if they have a legitimate reason for posting two seperate posts and many find it frustrating.

[Xenon]

well, that's the thing with every hack, just install it if you need it.

so why posting anything which should be wellknown to every admin?

[Blootix]

I don't even think Quick Reply button works in Opera (Unless you've REQUIRED the user to click the Quick Reply button)... I'd stick with Firefox. But yes, it is true that it doesn't work. Most people don't use Opera anyway... so I wouldn't worry about it.