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.

[Tyran1]

I need the option to Groups!

[yaku]

Originally Posted by mboyce84

I got the same problem. Its an issue with sql script and a deprecated supported keyword used the create the table I believe. Open the XML file and change on line 24 from:

TYPE=MyISAM

and replace with:

ENGINE=MyISAM


Then try the import again. Worked for me in Vbulletin 4.1.12 after the change.

Thanks for the post...couldn't get it to work on my 3.7 site before the change.

[Kraxell]

Does it work on 4.1?

[puddlove]

Anyone know if it works on 3.8? I assume it does - or at least I'm going to try it anyway.

Also, does anyone know if there's a way to moderate posts made under "Anonymous"? If I set the "Anonymous" user to require moderation for new threads/posts, does that work - i.e. does vBulletin "see" the Anonymous account as the poster, or the original, actual poster - therefore bypassing the moderation?

I can't set the forum to be moderated, as I also want non-anon posting to be unmoderated.

EDIT: Oops, just searched and found this post - I'm going to try it. I only want anonymous posts in forum X to be moderated. Non-anon posts can goo straight through. Let me see if that hack still works!

[BirdOPrey5]

Works fine in 3.8.

[rickrichards82]

i've installed this mod on version 4 and its working properly but i can't access the logs.

does anyone know how i can fix things so that i can access the anonymous logs? i checked the database and the users that use this mod are being logged in the database. i think its just not giving me the link in the adminCP to look at the mod and i can't really guess what the link is supposed to be.

[flapjack]

logs and mod work fine in 4.2 using code posted on page 11 best I can tell. Thanks for this!

Any way to make it work through quick reply, though?

[pacman99]

Okay, so I've got it installed (after some changes to the XML file), but turns out it hasn't enabled anonymous posting yet. It keeps giving me the following error when I try to update it in options:

Warning: trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in [path]/includes/adminfunctions_options.php on line 1032

Gist of it: I can't enable anonymous posting even after installing the mod

[BirdOPrey5]

Why did you need to edit the XML file? What changes did you make?

[pacman99]

^ I think I changed "TYPE" to "ENGINE" as suggested on page 11.

Anyway, that error has gone away, but now my users (non-admin) can't see the anonymous posting option when in the forums that I've selected in my user options.

What to do?