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.

[CoffeeLovesYou]

Originally Posted by Bill from Cleve

I have an issue. I know it's not from your awesome hack, but was wondering if you could give me an Idea to what is causing it?
When I post and quote using Anonymous, it puts tags around everything [ SIZE="a"]Another test[ /SIZE]

I'm using 3.8.3 Any Ideas?

I am having this issue .
It is because we have Default User Text Formatting installed.
When it's converting the old user into anonymous.. something is happening to the text.
It's adding [FONT="a"] and [SIZE="a"] and [COLOR="a"] to the posts, but only the SIZE is visible.
How can this be fixed?

[Tyran1]

Update to vB 5???

[crn]

I've made the change listed on page 11 (changing the text on line 24 to "ENGINE=MYISAM", but I can't seem to get this to work on vb 4.2.

It says it installed correctly, and I can set the options to enable it for different forums, but the anonymous posting never works and there's no option to choose to post anonymously. Any ideas?

EDIT: Nevermind. I needed to add the code to the template. And the updated code, not the code included in the install.txt.

the new code is from here

<vb:if condition="$show['anonymous']"><div><input type="checkbox" id="cb_anonymous" class="bginput" name="anonymous" value="1" checked/> {vb:rawphrase 

zointsanony_anonymous_post}</div></vb:if>

[kylek]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

To remove the IP address so mods can't see who it is do the following:

Edit the postbit or postbit legacy template.
Replace the number '51' with the forumid of your anonymous forum.

Find:

$post[onlinestatus]

Above it add:

<if condition="$thread['forumid'] != 51"> <!-- START ANON IF -->

Find:

$post[iplogged]

Below it add

</if> <!-- END ANON IF -->

So far got everything working with 4.2.1 but this. Anyone know what to look for in the 4.2.1 postbit to get this to work?

[BirdOPrey5]

In VB4 you should look for:

 {vb:raw post.iplogged}

And put a VB4 conditional around it.

VB4 conditionals at just like VB3 conditionals except they look like <vb:if...> </vb:if> rather than <if...> </if>.

[Luke Girgis]

Originally Posted by Tyran1

Update to vB 5???

I would like this too, anyone?

[Phaedrus]

I still have this working on 4.2.2... I had to update the place where I put my checkbox as the old code I was using wasn't in the new templates.

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I still have this working on 4.2.2... I had to update the place where I put my checkbox as the old code I was using wasn't in the new templates.

Good to know, thanks for sharing.

[Elixar]

Any chance for an update on this?

[grafixonline]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

I still have this working on 4.2.2... I had to update the place where I put my checkbox as the old code I was using wasn't in the new templates.

Hey, is there anyway u could give us screenshots on what u needed to mod to make it work with version 4.2. Thanks.