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.

[maidos]

nice but posting as anonymous wouldnt it jsut encourage ppl to flame

[Alfa1]

Is there any chance to get an option to only allow this option for the first post of a thread? That would be a major enhancement for my site.

[KempoMRK]

This is perfect for a forum I wanted to set up. Great hack man.

Is there any way to make this automatic? I've set up an anonymous forum, as it fits in well with my site, and I'd like to be able to just make all posts anonymous. Can this be done?

[KempoMRK]

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

[Raptor]

Superb

[neo314]

I am still on 3.6.8 but upgrading shortly to 3.7.2 and just downloaded the current version. What I have noticed is that when I set Anonymous to the group Anonymous Posters and cause that group to require all posts to be moderated, the posts still are not queued for moderation. In other words I think the postings permission is still that of the original poster. Is there any way/hack to cause anonymous posts to be moderated while leaving regular posters, who post under their user name, unaffected?

Thanx.

[cosy]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is there any chance to get an option to only allow this option for the first post of a thread? That would be a major enhancement for my site.

+1
this will be perfect :up:

[RavrSimba]

Originally Posted by logicuk

There was alot of bugs in the vb 3.6 version

how they now been fixed mate?

like edit post, quick reply and attachments?

The only reason I have not installed this mod is because of the fact that you can not set permissions based on user groups. Permissions such as a minimum post count would also be appreciated. This mod would be perfect if it had such a feature.

Until then I see it being heavily abused by "trolls". This could be prevented by allowing such permissions.

[helpmehost]

Same here I wait for more improvement like user group thing

[Merriweather]

I would like to see the issue of anonymous polls (that I posted a long time ago to the 3.6 version thread) be fixed. Other than that, I'm happy with it and will upgrade to this version.