Miscellaneous Hacks - List Reported Posts

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This is something I have been using for the last few years on Cable Forum, it displays a list of reported posts for both staff and members to see.

The list shows ;

Reported Date/Time
Reporter (Staff Only)
Thread Title
Post Number
Actioned Date/Time
Moderator Who Actioned.

For this system to work you must have vbulletin set-up to create a new thread for each report.

On the reported posts page members can click on the Actioned Moderator name to see any comment left by the moderator.

A report is considered as actioned by the first staff member to reply in the report thread. The comments are read from that first post (by default it reads anything inside quote tags).

Staff can click on the reporter to be taken directly to the report thread.

Staff Usergroups are defined in the mods settings - also the number of days to show reports for is defined in the settings.

Note: For this to function, certain phrases must be edited as per the instructions, if you fail to do this, it will not display correctly.

If enabled, this will also attempt to add a link to your Quick Links or Community Links. There is also an option to prefix the link path if you use something like CMPS.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vB 3.8.
v3.8.002 - Added auto links with choice of Quick Links or Community Links.
v3.8.003 - Fix hard coded path in thread links.
v3.8.004 - Updated to allow staff usergroups to be secondary groups.
v3.8.005 - Internal update, not released.
v3.8.006 - Fix deleted post and lowercase bugs.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Saint_ago

Ok, thanks. Looking forward for this.

Updated - 3.8.004

[Pcwolfx?]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Updated - 3.8.004

Thanks Paul. :up:

[Saint_ago]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Updated - 3.8.004

Thanks, Paul!

[Saint_ago]

Paul, another thing.. the reported Private Message isn't working, the thread is created but doesn't show on Message field:

[Paul M]

I dont know what you mean by "doesn't show on Message field"

Seems to be working fine for me.

[Saint_ago]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I dont know what you mean by "doesn't show on Message field"

Seems to be working fine for me.

Showing "0" instead of message #. I know that's a Private Message, but maybe if show anything else (like sender's id or member number) instead a 0, should be a little less confusing for all staff members..

[Paul M]

That field is the post number (and link to the post), both of which are irrelevant for reported PM's, therefore it is set to zero. That is not a fault, it is by design.

[Greek76]

Reported posts don't show up on the reported posts page for me either.

[Saint_ago]

Originally Posted by Paul M

That field is the post number (and link to the post), both of which are irrelevant for reported PM's, therefore it is set to zero. That is not a fault, it is by design.

I see.. thanks.

Is it possible to change in a new version? Put something else, another info like the sender's id or the link for sender's profile?

[Paul M]

Possible I guess, but then the column header would be incorrect. Still, I'll think about it.