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Wired1 · #1 07-19-2006, 05:10 PM

Some forums have a news account that multiple people log into and use for the express purpose of posting news articles. Creates a universal front and all that jazz.

I'm looking for one of three things that could accomplish what I'm looking for, which is a way to internally identify which person made which news post (in otherwords, a standard reader wouldn't know, but a staff member would):

1. a way that each person can either mark each post that they've done (probably easier to code, although more work for the end user)

2. a way to let each person have a personal news username (e.g. news_a, news_b, news_c), and when they post as that one, it would show up as the main news username (e.g. News). The personal news username wouldn't show up anywhere publicly, and for each post made by any personal news username, it would increase all of the appropriate public information for the news username (created by threads, post counts, etc).

If the personal news username isn't needed to be tracked, then the post count, etc. from each personal news username could be transferred into the main account, and a hidden piece of text could be embedded into the post stating who REALLY made it (there are hidden text hacks I know).

3. IIRC there's a hack out there that lets a user have a membername, and then a completely different name that they can post under. A way to mod that so that multiple users can have the same visual name (and merge post data of course) would work I guess.

So, anyone know of a hack like this?

davidw · #2 07-19-2006, 05:38 PM

Just a thought, but perhaps something like this... https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107557 could help?

Wired1 · #3 07-19-2006, 06:13 PM

... Yep, that'd do it!

Thanks a lot!

davidw · #4 07-19-2006, 06:26 PM

No problem

Wired1 · #5 07-19-2006, 06:48 PM

Just hope Marco replies to that thread, looks like it's been months since he's posted in there. Hack needs some minor tweaks to perfect it (aside from the possible anonymous options), so here's hoping!

tnguy3n · #6 07-19-2006, 07:15 PM

Try Anonymous Poster hack. It may be what you looked for.

Wired1 · #7 07-19-2006, 08:16 PM

Can't get that site to come up. Not looking for anonymous per se, just want to show a news poster as a unifed front, in that it's a team behind the member (although users don't need to know who posted what, but internally we may).

tnguy3n · #8 07-20-2006, 01:03 AM

Try the link again. The server was down a couple hours ago. The hack give users an option to post as anonymous, but forum admin/mods still be able to see the real poster and restore to the real username.

Wired1 · #9 07-20-2006, 02:57 AM

That only does anonymous, which isn't what I'm looking for.

phill2003 · #10 07-24-2006, 03:25 PM

Well i would assume you could change the anonymous to a username.

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