Version: 0.3, by CheeSie
Developer Last Online: Feb 2013
Category: New Posting Features -
Version: 4.x.x
Rating:
Released: 06-20-2011
Last Update: Never
Installs: 37
Uses Plugins Auto-Templates
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Next Bump (Information & Prevention)
Easily define a minimum time that must pass between your members bumping (posting in same thread as where they were the last poster) a thread. Display a box stating when they can bump again and/or automatically prevent them from bumping before they're allowed to.
Why did I make this? Well on my own forum we have several trading forums.. And to prevent the users from constantly bumping their threads to be displayed on the first page I decided to make this. It works, the users are happy and they know why their posts wont go through, so they've stopped complaining.
Features
Intro
No file uploads required.
No extra SQL queries.
Fully phrased.
Templates cached.
Settings
On/off switches for the whole hack and the individual functions.
Specify which forums to add the functionality to.
Specify to whom the functionality should apply (thread creator, last poster etc.)
Specify usergroups that are immune to these restrictions.
Extras
Customize the Next Bump Box.
Just to annoy your members you can have the customization parameters for the Next Bump Box randomized.
Visually
Displays a box stating when they can bump next, counting down from days, to hours, to minutes and finally to seconds - when they can bump it displays the text "Now".
When they're allowed to bump the box is green.
When they're not allowed to bump the box is red.
If a user of a usergroup set to always being able to see the box is being presented with the box, it will be in yellow and contain a string stating whom the box is applied to.
Prevention
When a user attempts to bump a thread and they're not allowed to do so they will be presented with an error message.
Users can still edit their latest post.
Users can still preview posts.
Installation
Download the product xml file.
Upload and install the xml file (if upgrading from a previous version, remember to allow overwrite)
Go to the vBulletin settings and edit the settings to fit your needs.
Done!
How does it look?
Please bear in mind that these are just examples on how you can position the box, how wide it should be and how the text should be aligned.
Just installed it to my site. Works great so far. It would be awesome if there were more options to place the bump box so we wouldn't have to go through the trouble of figuring out the code ourselves.
It works great in my clan recruitment forum, because this forum would end up with people bumping there topic constantly all day just to stay on the top of the page. Giving them 24 hours or until someone else posts is a great way to prevent people from spamming.
Is there anyway to add it to this toolbar on the top of the first post?
Just installed it to my site. Works great so far. It would be awesome if there were more options to place the bump box so we wouldn't have to go through the trouble of figuring out the code ourselves.
It works great in my clan recruitment forum, because this forum would end up with people bumping there topic constantly all day just to stay on the top of the page. Giving them 24 hours or until someone else posts is a great way to prevent people from spamming.
Is there anyway to add it to this toolbar on the top of the first post?
It will be possible to place it there, but it would require manual template changes that I'm not a fan of, but I did make it possible.
To place it there, edit the postbit_legacy template.
Find:
So I installed this and it works great with one exception. In the box titled: "Forums to use in" if I enter any number in there it shuts down the feature site wide. I would like to be able to enter in the numbers for specific sections of the board to use this feature while leaving other untouched. I understand this is supposed to be the function but am I missing something? Do I enter the forum order number or the id number? Something else?
Also, my ideal use for this is so the thread poster cannot post in his own thread for the set amount of time. Right now if someone else posts in the thread it allows the thread creator to post after that and therefore bypassing the bump timer.
Scenario: Member makes a post to sell an item. They should not be able to post in their thread again until the time is up. regardless if anyone else posts. The idea is to prevent the thread starter from replying with such comments as "pic's added" or "PM's replied to" which bumps their thread.
So I installed this and it works great with one exception. In the box titled: "Forums to use in" if I enter any number in there it shuts down the feature site wide. I would like to be able to enter in the numbers for specific sections of the board to use this feature while leaving other untouched. I understand this is supposed to be the function but am I missing something? Do I enter the forum order number or the id number? Something else?
Also, my ideal use for this is so the thread poster cannot post in his own thread for the set amount of time. Right now if someone else posts in the thread it allows the thread creator to post after that and therefore bypassing the bump timer.
Scenario: Member makes a post to sell an item. They should not be able to post in their thread again until the time is up. regardless if anyone else posts. The idea is to prevent the thread starter from replying with such comments as "pic's added" or "PM's replied to" which bumps their thread.
Just list the forum ids to use it in as a comma separated list of forum ids, example: 2,4,8,11
Quote:
Originally Posted by Diggo11
It would appear this mod no longer works properly in version 4.2.0 onwards...
I believe it does work..
Quote:
Originally Posted by zascok
reserved, for future, when it will work with 4.2. nice potential there.
if it also could have a function for a usergoups to bump with no post (just a thought)
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06-21-2011, 06:39 PM
