New Posting Features - Zoints Anonymous Posting - Improved privacy for members

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.

[ktaylor]

i bet you'd have to create users in order for that to occur and then have the software point to those users, understanding when they should pop in...which might be some fairly extensive coding

[dirtycrow]

Originally Posted by BBF

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

good lord my site needs this but we've gone with out since we upgraded

Originally Posted by New Joe

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.

I hope they say the update can be released to the public. it looks like the author has left town and isn't coming back.

[ktaylor]

well, that makes me wonder if, since the author is gone, can a new version be put up by a new author then?

the software is open source is it not?

[ktaylor]

well, i went over to the Zoints forum and like others previously, posted a request to either get an update or allow the other member to post his.

and after a week of it being posted, no response. shoot, with that, i'd say they no longer want to own this component.

here's the forum if anyone wants to let them know that there's more than just a few of us interested in getting this upgrade.

http://network.zoints.com/showthread.php?t=5124

[Jack Black]

I started that thread, and have just given them another plea to upgrade it!

[MrRem]

Originally Posted by ktaylor

i bet you'd have to create users in order for that to occur and then have the software point to those users, understanding when they should pop in...which might be some fairly extensive coding

There was an old Anon Posting mod that did exactly that though.
was for version 2 though.

[BirdOPrey5]

To remove the IP address so mods can't see who it is do the following:

Edit the postbit or postbit legacy template.
Replace the number '51' with the forumid of your anonymous forum.

Find:

$post[onlinestatus]

Above it add:

<if condition="$thread['forumid'] != 51"> <!-- START ANON IF -->

Find:

$post[iplogged]

Below it add

</if> <!-- END ANON IF -->

I took a quick glance at the code, the upgrade to vBulletin 4.0 is very simple, a single template edit; I'll post the template change tomorrow.

This of course is an exact port of the current mod: attachments will still not work, who's online will still show information (but I think you can disable User is Viewing X Thread per forum via the forum manager, which may be a temporary solution)...etc,etc,...

[dirtycrow]

Originally Posted by Danny.VBT

I took a quick glance at the code, the upgrade to vBulletin 4.0 is very simple, a single template edit; I'll post the template change tomorrow.

This of course is an exact port of the current mod: attachments will still not work, who's online will still show information (but I think you can disable User is Viewing X Thread per forum via the forum manager, which may be a temporary solution)...etc,etc,...

so awesome, thank you!

Please TEST these edits before making them live on your active forum. There is no guarantee the code works, I tested it briefly on a single local development forum on vB 4.0.1 !
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1.) Template Edit

Open template "newpost_usernamecode"

Find:

    </div>
</vb:if>

Add above :

<vb:else />
<vb:if condition="$show['anonymous']">
              {vb:phrase anon_posting_as} {vb:raw bbuserinfo.musername} <br />
              <label for="cb_anonymous"><input type="checkbox" id="cb_anonymous" class="bginput" name="anonymous" value="1"  <vb:if condition="$vbulletin->GPC['anonymous']">checked="checked"</vb:if>/>{vb:phrase zointsanony_anonymous_post}</label>
</vb:if>

2. ) Add Phrase:

Phrase Type: Posting
Product: Zoints Anonymous Posting
Variable name: anon_posting_as
Text: "Currently Posting As"