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.

[biome.pat]

Hey guys,

I've been trying to figure this out, but it's hard to figure out where to start:
Any idea where I'd look if I was interested in making it so that anonymous posts (and only posts with the anonymous box ticked) are sent for moderation, but others are allowed to just post as normal? I don't mind if the post has been "anonymous-ified" beforehand, but I want to have a say in whether content is appropriate. I've been combing through the files, but can't figure out where to start!

Thanks in advance for any tips!

[Deyth]

Is it possible to restrict the anonymous option to certain usergroups?

[biome.pat]

Alright, this is a GREAT modification, but it was lacking something that I needed.
This is probably a dirty, dirty piece of programming, but here's my addition:

If you want to be able to moderate all anonymous posts before they are actually shown to users (to make sure that the anonymity function is being used appropriately), then have I got the plugin for you. Only the posts that have the anonymity check box selected will be sent into moderation queue -- All others will be posted immediately.

Here's the deal...
Add a new plugin with the following settings:

Product: Zoints Anonymous Posting
Hook Location: newpost_process
Title: Moderate Anonymous (Post & Thread)
Execution Order: 5 (same as others plugins in product)
Plugin PHP Code:

PHP Code:

if (
    $foruminfo['forumid'] == 187 // forumid of anonymous forum
    AND $vbulletin->GPC['anonymous']
)
{
    // note: specified post comes from a variable passed into newreply.php
    $dataman->set('visible', 0);
    $post['visible'] = 0;
} 


Make sure you change the first forumid to the one(s) you've got anonymity set up for.
What this does is adds another bit to the section of source where its decided whether a new post/thread will go into moderation queue or not. If it's 1) being posted to the anonymous forum, and 2) the anonymous check-box is checked, then the post will be stored with a "visible" value of "0", sending it into queue.

Feel free to point out my major oversights folks. I'm sure there are many

Cheers,
Patrick

[moonclamp]

Can someone explain the permissions to me a bit more before I use this?

Can you choose whether people can post new threads anonymously but not reply to them anonymously?

Also, is there any way to make the anonymous thread starter be the only one able to make anonymous replies in their own threads?

Finally, will reading "Who's Online" give the poster information away?

Same question about other parts of the forum - subscription emails, usercp, recent posts etc?

I need to be 110% sure that nothing will reveal the true poster.

[street tactic]

Just thought I'd say this is an excellent mod. Solved an issue I was specifically looking to handle. Marked Installed.

[CBrown]

I'm trying to hide the IP address of the anonymous posters so that the other moderators can not view the IP and track the person down that way....

How would i go about hiding their IP address from others?

[AdmiralSpock]

Is this working on 3.8?

[furst]

Is there any way to turn logging of users off? I really want it to be entirely anonymous in one forum.

[Tyran1]

Yes working on 3.8 !!!

[Daisyboo]

Originally Posted by 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?

Ditto to this, this would be really useful.