Improved Moderator Alert System

IMPROVED MODERATOR ALERT v.1.1

Goal: Improve the way staff handles junk posts. Speed up processing time of moderator alerts from users. Make the forum meta-moddable.

Usefuleness: The default moderator alerts are useless. Why rely on email to a few people when you have a perfectly good forum system? This hack will have you create a thread in your private Moderators forum. Then as users click "Moderator Alert" under any post, the system will add a new post to your thread in the private room-- allowing all staff to see and discuss the problem immediately instead of relying on the old style email functions.


Requirements:

-Existing private moderator/admin forum
-Annoying users that violate your TOS
-Useful users that will report them


Installation:

-Create and upload one file to your forum directory
-Make one addition in functions.php
-Upload one gif
-Make one addition to the postbit template
-Add two templates


Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Speed: Not too bad

Release: 1.1-- Feb 07, 2003

Added option to put all alerts in one post or in mutiple threads

Fixed bugs and tested both versions


Michael Knight:

[Holidazed]

Does ANYBODY check this thread at all?

[cnczone]

I guess they all fell off the earth.

[discussfitness]

Originally Posted by cnczone

I guess they all fell off the earth.

It would be great if you could give a reason. I prefer this hack compared to filburt1's one, but at least with his you can add a reason, even if you can't discuss it. I want to be able to discuss and see the reason... lol

[discussfitness]

Hehe... I can't believe this - I found a way to include a reason It's so simple, no wonder the author didn't reply, he must have thought we were all fools. Anyway...

Just add something like:

<input type="text" name="reason" size="25" maxlength="50">

To your modalert template in the Admin CP

Then in your modalert.php file, put the variable

PHP Code:

$reason 


Where you want their reason to appear, i.e. somewhere within

PHP Code:

$message = "Alerting user: $bbuserinfo[username]\nPost ID: $postid - $bburl/showthread.php?postid=$postid#post$postid \n\nPost Message: [quote]$postinfo[pagetext][/quote]\n\nTheir reason was:\n $reason"; 


Lol... didn't realise it was that simple, but I thought I should do the right thing and report my findings for the good of the community Let me know if you like it and congrats to original author.

[heynurse]

Wow, thanks a ton, works great! Thanks for sharing.

[Rezin]

I have a heavily modded forum, and this worked flawlessly!

Thanks Overgrow! (Great board BTW, I'm one of your members )

[Prince]

Nice hack!

the added "reason" for reporting the post option worked great too!

[Randomlove]

Great hack, I also added reason, very handy indeed. As for the modifiying admin/functions.php to insert the URL and image for modalert.php

This is the code:

PHP Code:

$modalert="<a href=\"modalert.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&postid=$post[postid]&username=$post[username]\"><img src=\"{imagesfolder}/modalert.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alert Moderators\"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;"; 


The hack then tells us to put the variable $modalert in postbit, why not just insert that variable vaule into postbit directly? is a there a way to modify template postbit only and omit source code modifications?

Thanks.

[DarkSavior]

Great hack! But for me it doesn't use the specific account which would post the reported post to the mod forum. I made a super moderator account for that, but it always uses my own.

And I don't know if it could be more clearer than my userid for modbot is 10, and that's what I set it to in modalert.php also. But still it uses only my admin account.

EDIT: Got it working by doing some edits to the modalert.php file.

Added $postingusername field there, which I filled with the mod reporter bot name.
Then I changed all $bbuserinfo[userid] fields to $postinguser and all $bbuserinfo[username] to $postingusername.

Now it's working perfectly.

[ricker]

great hack! easy install.
*clicks install*