What do you use for moderator comments?

[simalert]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Limiting BB-Codes to Usergroups is extremely difficult, and if done correct would add a lot of processing to parsing a post.

Think about the following:
- A BB-code to wich a user don't have permission, is like a non-existant bb-code, ie. just plain text. It should just turn up as plain text.
- BB-Codes are parsed when a post is first time shown (and again if not in post_parsed anymore). This means that parsing the post and evaluating the bb-codes might be done by a member who is in a different usergroup then the original poster. Retrieving the usergroup permissions of the poster might add a lot of processing.
- What if a Staff member edit the original post, and uses a bb-code that only a few usergroups have permission to? Are the permissions of the original poster used when parsing the post? The permissions of that Staff member (what if the original poster edits his post afterwards, can he then suddenly use staff bb-codes)?
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Probably 100 more caveats to think of.

Or there's an easier way to handle this.

Instead of handling it as mentioned above, why not just add a check when a post is posted?

vBulletin already supports a minimum character posting rule i.e. if there aren't enough characters in the post it won't let it be posted and instead shows a warning message. I reckon this is the way to tackle it. If the post has a flagged BBCode in it (set in ACP) then it could refuse to post it.

So if someone posted [mod]blah blah blah[/mod] then it would give an error message saying "you aren't permitted to post with that BBCode" or something similar.

That would make more sense, be less resource hungry and shouldn't be as tricky to implement.

Only problem is that I can't do it any takers out there???