Discussion Thread for My Next 6 Hacks [Please Read]

[N9ne]

The Ultimate Points System \\
AdminCP Integrated Extra Forum Options \\
Instantly Ban User + Prune All Posts \\
Advanced Username colouring/effects \\
ACP Integrated Custom Title Colouring \\
Advanced Thread Closure System \\

Those are ideas I have to be my next 6 hacks, a description of each is below, I make this thread so people can suggest features for each, so I can make them better...

The Ultimate Points System
Usergroup Option: Can gain points?
User Option: Can gain points? [you can freeze their points]
Per Forum Options:
- # of Points for,
++ Given number of characters in post (3 level)
++ New Reply
++ New Thread

Main Options: # of points to have CTs and CAs enabled...

I want ideas on other ways people can gain points, I really need some ideas, I will also be integrating the idea of my spam points system hack into this, so users can lose points at the same time...


AdminCP Integrated Extra Forum Options
I completely forgot what I was going to do with this hack, I can't remember what was going to be in it, etc. So I might aswell start over lol...

I could have several things added:
- Attachments Enabled?
- Header of forum
- Footer of forum

I really need help here too, give me ideas...


Instantly Ban User + Prune Posts
A link in postbit only shown to supermods and admins;
- Will take them to a page where you have a checkbox to prune all of the user's posts too, and you will be told the user's post count, so you can see how intensive it will be.
- AdminCP Integrated: Logs of banned users
- AdminCP Integrated: Specify UserGroupID into which banned users go into.
- AdminCP Integrated: If Admin, go into X usergroupid, if supermod, go into Y usergroupid (detects whether an admin or supermod is banning the user)

Give me ideas on things I could add to this too, please


Advanced Username Colouring Effects
All these colouring of usernames on who's online, currently active users, forumdisplay browsing users, postbit: user's name, forumdisplay: user's name hacks, well, it's a royal mess, with a lot of hard coding.

This hack will have full AdminCP integration, and you can specify for each usergroup, how their username looks on all those pages mentioned. You don't just specify a colour code, this is the layout (will be on a per-styleset basis too, so different style sets have different colours):

Administrators
Currently Active Users [forumdisplay and index]:
Opening tag: <smallfont color="red"><i>
Closing tag: </i></smallfont>

And that will be repeated for every occurance of usernames, and for every usergroup! So that includes memberlist...possibly search.php too.


ACP Integrated Custom Title Colouring
In AdminCP, you can specify which usergroupids can specify a colour for their user title.

If a user's usergroupid is listed, in profile page in userCP, there is the option to specify a hexadecimal code for their usertitle. Their usertitle will be that colour .


Advanced Thread Closure System
I'm not so sure how i'm going to make this hack, ie. what features will be in it, but I think I will have it like this, (taking ideas from previous hacks):

You must specify a reason for thread closure.

There are full logs of closures and openings, when, why, where, who...

Certain heirarchical levels of closure, if a mod closes, mods, smods, admins can reply and open. [level 1]

If a smod closes, smods and admins can reply and open [level 2]

If an admin closes, admins can open and reply [level 3]

Admin has the option to Raise closure to level 4 where upon no one can reply or open the thread.

I think I could reconstruct those levels, so there's say 12 levels:

Level 1: Mods, Smods, Admins can reply and open, All can view
Level 2: Mods, Smods, Admins can reply and open, only mods, smods and admins can view
Level 3: Smods, Admins can reply and open, All can view
Level 4: Smods, Admins can reply and open, mods, smods, admins can view
Level 5: Smods, Admins can reply and open, smods and admins can view only
Level 6: Admins can reply and open, all can view
Level 7: Admins can reply and open, mods, smods, admins can view
Level 8: Admins can reply and open, smods and admins can view
Level 9: Admins can reply and open, admins can view
Level 10: Admins can open, admins can view
Level 11: Admins can't open, admins can view
Level 12: The thread is practically invisible and can't be taken off that status


Or something along those lines...it's quite confusing thinking about it...i'm open to suggestions and re-construction..