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.

[neo314]

Sigh. Any one have any ideas about moderating only anonymous posts? Some idea where to start looking? Would group settings solve this? I assume the problem with group settings would be the same as with moderating the anonymous user. The poster has the permissions of his/her normal account. Right?

[smirkley]

I know this is unsupported, but I am hoping someone here has the answer.

I have installed and marked as installed.

But in the Admin CP, the Anonymous Post Log, doesnt work and just redirects me to a framed home page of my forum.

Has anyone experienced this?
Is there a known conflict with another mod?

Thanks sincerely for any replies.

[smirkley]

Fixed (I am such a noob sometimes )

[Alfa1]

Here is how you code the usergroup permissions in your newpost_usernamecode template:

Template Edit
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template name: newpost_usernamecode
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Find:
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<phrase 1="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$bbuserinfo[userid]" 2="$bbuserinfo[username]">$vbphrase[logged_in_as_x]</phrase>
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Below, Add:
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<if condition="$show['anonymous'] AND is_member_of($bbuserinfo,4,5,6,7)"><div><input type="checkbox" id="cb_anonymous" class="bginput" name="anonymous" value="1" <if condition="$vbulletin->GPC['anonymous']">checked="checked"</if>/>$vbphrase[zointsanony_anonymous_post]</div></if>
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4,5,6,7 is the allowed usergroups. Replace by the usergroups of choice.

[techdeals07]

Any chance that the attachment issue will ever be addressed?

[AusPhotography]

I hope the attachments issue will be looked at as well, for the 3.6 and 3.7 versions.

[Kaelon]

I've found a bug: if you hard-delete an anonymous post, it still shows up under the "Anonymous Log" in the AdminCP. Any way that this can be fixed?

[jredrum]

Anyway to do this so it works with quick reply in the anonymous forum? Or how to take out the quick reply in one forum only?

[chris1979]

I'd definitely like this if it could keep track of multiple anon users on the same thread. So the first person to post anonymously would be "Anonymous User 1" and the next "Anonymous User 2", etc.

If all the people posting anonymously get given the same name, that'd be confusing.

[microdot]

I really like this idea but I have a question.. do posters have to have an account on the forum before posting anonymously?

Is it possible to let people who are not members to post aswell?

Thanks for your help