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Zoints Anonymous Posting - Improved privacy for members · **Released**: 04-30-2008

Have you ever wanted to discuss something on a forum but never posted because you didn't want people to know it was you? To solve this problem, we created an anonymous posting hack.

Via the admin control panel, you can easily choose which forum(s) allows for anonymous posting.

For anonymous enabled forums, your members then get this handly little checkbox (unchecked by default) when making a new thread or post.

If they check the box, then their post is created under the account you setup and assign as the anonymous poster. I personally created an "anonymous" username, but you can create whatever you want.

As forum owners, we all know that a few members will choose to screw around with this feature. Therefore we created an easy means to identify who created an anonymous thread/post should the need arise. Please be ethical and tell your members you can see who posted anonymously should the need arise. You can check the log by going here:

And the log looks something like this:

Official support for this modification will take place at http://network.zoints.com in this forum.

Enjoy, click install, check out Zoints' other hacks, have a great day, and all that happy jive.

neo314 · #92 01-05-2010, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrRem

Can you make certain forums ONLY allowing anonymous posting?

Yes. That is one of the features of the plug-in.

MrRem · #93 01-06-2010, 06:39 PM

How do I make it on by default?

MrRem · #94 01-06-2010, 06:45 PM

Found it on your community:

Quote:

I found out a way to automatically check the box.

Click "Search In Templates" and search for this piece of code:

<if condition="$show['anonymous']"><div><input type="checkbox" id="cb_anonymous" class="bginput" name="anonymous" value="1"

Now replace it with this:

<if condition="$show['anonymous']"><div><input type="checkbox" id="cb_anonymous" class="bginput" name="anonymous" value="1" checked="checked"

The box will automatically be checked now.

Thanks to Jase2, as I came up with this idea based off his hack:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=169444

ktaylor · #95 03-01-2010, 05:12 AM

any chance for an upgrade to VB4?

BBF · #96 03-17-2010, 07:29 AM

I upgraded it by myself to vBulletin 4.
But i need author permission to release it.
His last activity was in April 2009 =\

New Joe · #97 03-17-2010, 08:08 AM

It's one of the last mods I'm waiting for before I move to vB4, maybe PM one of the Mods or Admin on here, see what they say.

New Joe · #98 03-31-2010, 04:37 AM

BBF, and chance you could get back to my PM mate. Thanks.

TrudyD · #99 04-03-2010, 01:43 PM

This is something I definately need. How do I go about installing it? I'm not real cyber savvy but can follow simple instructions. LOL Thanks!

ktaylor · #**100** 04-08-2010, 07:33 AM

was it difficult to update BBF? or just one or 2 modifications to the plugin?

MrRem · #**101** 04-08-2010, 07:59 AM

Is there a way like the old Anon posting to make replies show like this:

Anon A
Anon B replied
Anon A replied
Anon C replied

etc.

So each new Anon user has their own Anon posting so conversations are easier to follow?

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