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.

[Daisyboo]

I have a plug in to turn it off in a selected forum - thanks Lynn!

hook location "fetch_foruminfo"


PHP Code:

if ($forumid == 'xx')
{
$vbulletin->options['quickreply'] = '0';
}

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Tyran1

Yes working on 3.8 !!!

thanks for the heads up.

[students_forum]

Originally Posted by 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.

That is a very good suggestion.

[Mum]

I like that suggestion too.

[Daisyboo]

Cross posted

The forum shows up who's online so you can see who's in there.

Users browsing this forum still shows up at the bottom.

Ips can be looked at and mods can work out who posted.

Is there any fix to these problems? I have 2 parenting forums and we post personal and medical problems using this mod.

[peterle1]

Originally Posted by Daisyboo

The forum shows up who's online so you can see who's in there.

turn it off

Users browsing this forum still shows up at the bottom.

turn it off

Ips can be looked at and mods can work out who posted.

Do you trust your mods? If not turn off that they can see the IPs.

Is there any fix to these problems? I have 2 parenting forums and we post personal and medical problems using this mod.

Allow guest posting and try a DNSBL mod to deny usage from open proxies, allow multiple registrations.

HTH

[chooky]

Dont works with 3.8 Final, because after post a anonymous thread the attachments are away...

[Phaedrus]

Originally Posted by 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

I tested this, if they don't have an account, unless you allow Guests to post, they wouldn't be able to use this.

There is no Quick Reply box and each time you hit New Reply or New Thread you get the standard you must register error.

[Daisyboo]

Originally Posted by peterle1

turn it off



turn it off



Do you trust your mods? If not turn off that they can see the IPs.



Allow guest posting and try a DNSBL mod to deny usage from open proxies, allow multiple registrations.

HTH

No not really as they are obvious answers and are not helpful. I have had a reply for the Zoints people and they are currently working on fixing this issue.
Yes I trust my mods but I'd like people to feel safe in posting personal problems.

[zepy3]

I can't let users attach images even though it's in the same usergroup as other users. When they go anonymous it doesn't attach the images.

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA