New Posting Features - Doublepost Prevention

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This modification has been withdrawn.
vBulletin 4.0.x and 4.1.x are no longer supported.

The feature is already built into the core vBulletin 4.2.x code.
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This is a current version of the popular modification, originally developed for the early 3.x series by Xenon.

Basically, if member posts in a thread where they were the previous last poster, then if the conditions are met, their new post will be auto-merged into the previous post instead of creating a new "double" post.

A number of options are provided ;

Time Limit - if more than xxx minutes have passed since the last post, no merge is done.

Timestamp Spacer - if enabled, a timestamped spacer is added between the old post text and the new post text.
Other spacer choices provided are no spacer, a default, or a custom spacer.

Spacer Colour - allows you to set the colour of the spacer between merged posts (if one is enabled).

Post Timestamp Update - if enabled the newly merged post will have its post time updated to the new time, otherwise it retains the time of the original post.

Usergroup exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain usergroups from the doublepost merges.

Forum exceptions - Allows you to exempt certain forums form the doublepost merges.

IP Address Check - Specifies if the poster IP should be checked, if enabled, the post will only be merged if the user and ip address are the same.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Doublepost Prevention.

To install just unzip the XML and import into vB using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v4.0.1 : 15-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.
v4.1.1 : 17-Jun-2011 : Fixed for vBulletin 4.1.4.
v4.1.2 : 30-Jun-2011 : Javascript updated for CKE and Autosave.
v4.1.3 : 08-Jul-2011 : Dependancies updated as its no longer compatible with vB 4.1.3 or less.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

[Paul M]

Nope, you lost me completely.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Nope, you lost me completely.

Can I catch a ride? I'm lost, too, on what he was trying to say.

[Sunka]

I am not lost (I think).

It will show example B

[pant]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Nope, you lost me completely.

Originally Posted by Boofo

Can I catch a ride? I'm lost, too, on what he was trying to say.

Keep up

Originally Posted by Sunka

I am not lost (I think).

It will show example B

Thanks, I just want to prevent a double post. On 3.8.x when someone made a double post IE 'the exact same text as the text before' a message would pop up saying this is a duplicate of something you've just posted, you would then get redirected to the original. On vb4 this doesn't seem to be the case, I've logged a ticket about it so I guess it's trouble shooting time.

Funnily enough though the response I got aside from the trouble shooting steps was that theyve noticed a number of people getting the same problem recently so I wonder if it's caused by the 4.0.3 update?

[Paul M]

Double post is not the same as duplicate post, which is what you seem to be referring to.

[AlexOC]

Great mod.

Thanks alot

[Diablotic]

I have just recently noticed that when using this mod the joined post is posted twice. Please look at the screen below:

First post was: "Tessssst", and then I posted a second one: "testt77" but for some reason this mod is adding another "testt77" to the original post so I end up with double posting of the second post after merging and it happens every time and to everyone.
I tried reinstalling this mod but it doesn't help. I am running vB4.0.3

Any ideas?

[Paul M]

I would guess you have another mod inteferring, it works fine on my 4.0.3 forum.

[Diablotic]

Yeah it worked fine for me as well before. I have recently installed vBSeo Sitemap generator 2.6 beta 2 and that was it. Where should I look to try to solve this problem?

[Paul M]

Im afraid I have no idea. I dont really see how sitemap could intefere.