Show Thread Enhancements - Thread Content Anti-Theft

Description:
With one of my sites members submit nicely formated content in select forums. Most include thread content with a bunch of images/thumbs (sometimes hundreds of images) and over time we found that some users were using the quote button to get the content and image BBcodes and doing a copy/paste on the entire first content post and reposting on other forums claiming it as their own. This template edit helps to curb this practice. I have had several people ask me how this was done so I will provide it here. I imagine the method may help people to adapt it in other ways as well.

What this does:
This template edit removes the QUOTE, MULTI-QUOTE, and QUICK REPLY button in the first post of a thread in select forums and replaces it with an "Anti-Theft" image button instead.

Note:
Nearly nothing is this world is perfect. There are a couple of ways to get around this but we have seen a DRASTIC reduction in copy/paste thread theft due to this. This is especially useful when the thread content contains lots of images and thumbs linking to images BBCode. I also, see no reason why this would not work fine in any 3.x.x install at the very least.

Install:
In template POSTBIT and/or POSTBIT_LEGECY

Find:

<a href="$post[editlink]" name="vB::QuickEdit::$post[postid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/edit.gif" alt="$vbphrase[edit_delete_message]" border="0" /></a>
            </if>

After add:

<!-- ANTI THREAD THEFT -->
<if condition="$post[postcount] == 1 AND in_array($forum[forumid], array(a,b,c,x,y,z))">
<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/anti-theft-postbit.gif" alt="Thread ANTI-THEFT Enabled" border="0" />
<else />
<!-- / ANTI THREAD THEFT -->

Find:

<if condition="$show['moderated']">

Above it add:

<!-- ANTI THREAD THEFT -->
</if>
<!-- / ANTI THREAD THEFT -->

That's it.
In the first code addition, customize the array (a,b,c,x,y,z) with the forum IDs of the forums you want this to effect. All other forums not in this array will not be effected and appear normally. Also, you will have to create an image and alter the "img src=....." part.

I have attached two screenshots. One is the normal postbit button layout and the other is what it looks like with the Anti-Theft enabled.

[cayne]

Edit: Sorry, posted to the wrong mod
Anyway, gonna take a look at this one too.

[cheat-master30]

Originally Posted by cayne

Edit: Sorry, posted to the wrong mod
Anyway, gonna take a look at this one too.

It's okay enough if the other forums involved don't use the WYSIWYG editor, but if they do, the post will retain all formatting information just from a copy and paste.

[lovegirl]

I've tried this mod , it is very cool the only inconvenient i didnt like it , it remove the reply and forward button in private messages and it act on all forums even i put only one id anyone can enlight me why and help me to fix it ..?or maybe i did something wrong i dunno

[Nathan2006]

Lots of people know about ways around everything but why does everyone have to use this thread to go on and on about it?



Thank you very much RMS-Chef

I have been looking for this for a long time now

I have always hated the fact that someone posts a ton of text, pictures, links and everyone always quotes the whole lot just to say "thanks"

Back to very tidy threads

I find it very annoying when people do it - and there is no point in them doing it lol


Thanks again for this fantastic hack and I have voted MOTM too


Install

[harmor19]

I'm trying to make my own text scrambler. I haven't put it in modification form yet but planning to this fall (I lose interest in coding in the summer).
You can test out the scrambler here

[Nathan2006]

Originally Posted by harmor19

I'm trying to make my own text scrambler. I haven't put it in modification form yet but planning to this fall (I lose interest in coding in the summer).
You can test out the scrambler here

That's cool Would be great to have for certain forums

[Saviour]

At least the thought was there...but becuase there are ways around it...this hack really has no use.

Nice try, though...

[sandt38]

It didn't work for me, sadly. But I have to run out the door right now, so i can't manipulate it.

But I wonder, do I have to add the child forums as well, or can i just use parent forums in the array template modification? Also, will this work for pre-existing posts, or will it work for new posts after the mod only?

[Celebutopia]

works fine on 8.2