New Posting Features - Doublepost Prevention

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This is an updated version of the popular modification, previously released by Xenon. It is released with his kind permission.

Basically, if member posts in a thread where they were the previous last poster, then if the conditions are met, their new post will be auto-merged into the previous post instead of creating a new "double" post.

A number of options are provided ;

Time Limit - if more than xxx minutes have passed since the last post, no merge is done.

Timestamp Spacer - if enabled, a timestamped spacer is added between the old post text and the new post text.

Post Timestamp Update - if enabled the newly merged post will have its post time updated to the new time, otherwise it retains the time of the original post.

Spacer Colour - allows you to set the colour of the spacer between merged posts.

Usergroup exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain usergroups from the doublepost merges.

Forum exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain forums form the doublepost merges.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Doublepost Prevention.


To install just unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vB 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Phrased the post separater.
v3.8.003 : Added JS Template - removing need to edit quick reply javascript file.
v3.8.004 : Updated spacer options.
v3.8.005 : Updated timestamp spacer to fix issue with large merge times.

[Paul M]

This does a proper ajax merge (not a redirect).

ATM you can only exclude forums in this version.

This will not merge posts with attachments, which the other will (but it ignores any max attachment rules).

Not sure about any other differences.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Please remove for the next version the COLOR BBCode if there is no color defined. It it doing just a horrible [COLOR=""] Tag...

3.8.004

You can turn off the colour or the entire spacer if you wish.

[forexforum]

Originally Posted by Paul M

3.8.004

You can turn off the colour or the entire spacer if you wish.

Hi Paul,

The Quick Reply doesn't work in 3.8.1. Whenever I reply via the Quick Reply box, it shows a blank.

[Paul M]

My test forum is 3.8.1 and it works fine for me.

[jGas]

it works also on 3.7 if you change the dependency

[Vinyljunky]

Another great mod from Paul M :up:

Thank you for sharing your code

[FinanceGuy]

Installed in seconds. Tested in no time. Worked perfectly with absolutely no problems.

Beautiful work mate. You got my vote. :up:

[Fynnon]

it seems that the second post is merged into the first post but it is also displayed as second post

[forte]

This causes a conflict with the Facebook Connect hack. Using the quick reply would redirect me to the newreply page with the error that i lack characters and the text box is blank. I also get a javascript error that fb_qr_prepare_submit_pdp is now defined (Facebook Connect uses fb_qr_prepare_submit).

[zlos]

works ad dream - installed