New Posting Features - Doublepost Prevention

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This modification has been withdrawn.
vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x are no longer supported.

The feature is already built into the core vBulletin 4.2.x code.
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This is a current version of the popular modification, originally developed for the early 3.x series by Xenon.

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.
Other spacer choices provided are no spacer, a default, or a custom spacer.

Spacer Colour - allows you to set the colour of the spacer between merged posts (if one is enabled).

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.

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

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

IP Address Check - Specifies if the poster IP should be checked, if enabled, the post will only be merged if the user and ip address are the same.

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:

v4.0.1 : 15-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.
v4.1.1 : 17-Jun-2011 : Fixed for vBulletin 4.1.4.
v4.1.2 : 30-Jun-2011 : Javascript updated for CKE and Autosave.
v4.1.3 : 08-Jul-2011 : Dependancies updated as its no longer compatible with vB 4.1.3 or less.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

[spillage]

This is a recent install for my site... the idea is great.
I've been keeping an eye out to see how it performs.
I have it applied to all forums, and only to exclude staff.
The window is set to 5 minutes.
Yesterday there was a double post at 2mins that got by.
Today it caught a double post, but the time-stamp is off by 5hrs.
Any ideas as to why?
Thanks,

[etca]

works on 4.1.8

[S3Ponline]

I’m not sure why it’s doing this but when I was testing it out, it kept double posting.

I would post “Test”
and it would have TWO instances of “test”

I have VBSEO so I’m wondering if that’s conflicting.

[s0ur]

Here is an interesting thing, this won't merge posts made by someone using the Tapatalk app for mobile devices.

Any ideas as to why this may be happening?

[Paul M]

Not a clue. I dont know anything about Tapatalk.

[yjeanrenaud]

Me too got that issue with tapatalk. I guess it has something to do how that posts to the forums.
it seems not to invoke the hook

[Luca_ITA]

work fine on vb4.19, thx!
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italian translate

[Froberg]

Paul, you Sir, are awesome-sauce distilled in to even more awesome concentrate!

Thank you so much!

[Arnowt]

Thank you very much for the work

[Raz0r.]

Thank you so much for this Paul. Working perfectly fine on 4.1.10 aswell i see(atleast for me)