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.

[stev35555]

Originally Posted by Danny.VBT

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"

Thanks for this, i have installed it but i want this to be avaliable to everyone and not just one user, can that be done? It asks for userid

The userid is the ID of the user account you want to show up as the Anonymous poster (you should create this via the Admin CP), not who can use it. Make sense?

[ragarcia87]

Thanks Danny.VBT! You are the man. I've been wanting to use this mod again and was actually coming here to download it and update the code for vB4 myself, lol.

[dirtycrow]

awesome, thank you!

[dirtycrow]

when going to the advanced post new thread or post screen the "title" field is really tiny now after the template edit.

suggestions?

Thanks, I'll look at this tomorrow morning before work.

[biome.pat]

Originally Posted by MrRem

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?

I've used this mod for awhile, and it's just way simply to just ask folks to clarify. Our thread-starters are always anonymous in one forum, and sometimes people reply anonymously too. They simply started each reply with "OP here" or "not the OP" (original poster), and it solved itself

[BirdOPrey5]

Of course the above relies on trusting users to be truthful... I know for a fact sometimes my users will pretend to be the original poster, when they are not- because I'm the OP.

[biome.pat]

haha yeah, you're right, but you kicked up a fuss, right? As admin, I'd just go to the anonymous log and deal with the imposter, if it ever came to it

[biome.pat]

By the way, thanks Danny.VBT!