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.

[Mrdby]

3.6.7?

[Braders]

Might will be the dumbest question asked. But, I didn't see a solution in this thread.

I see in the Anonymous options:

Select the forums you want to have Anonymous posting enabled in

I highlight 1 forum from my list but can't implement this software in more than 1?

Thanks

[UNRE4L]

All you do braders is just hold down ctrl while you are clicking to select more than one forum.

[IceBurn3000]

Any update on having the anonymous poster option in Quick Reply?

[rnmcd]

Does a user's signature still display if he/she posts anonymously?

[Mum]

Originally Posted by rnmcd

Does a user's signature still display if he/she posts anonymously?

No.

[rnmcd]

Do the anonymous posts display in the respective user's "Find all posts by username" ?

[Mum]

Originally Posted by rnmcd

Do the anonymous posts display in the respective user's "Find all posts by username" ?

No.

[rnmcd]

Originally Posted by Mrdby

3.6.7?

Did you try it in 3.6.7?

[FatalBreeze]

Great Hack, but there's just one problem.
When a user sends an anonymous question, and then edits it, there is the text "Laset Edited By XXX" and as XXX there's the real name of the user, and not the name Anonymous Poster. can you build a plugin that will do the following thing:
if the user who edits the post in the real poster, than there will be a message "Last Edited By Anonymous Poster" (anonymous poster = the username which userid is set in the admincp), else, if the editer is not the real poster, so the current message will be displayed.

Thanks!