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Zoints Anonymous Posting - Improved privacy for members · **Released**: 04-30-2008

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.

BirdOPrey5 · #**142** 03-25-2011, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daisyboo

I'm not getting it anywhere

In the settings should the forums I select stay highlighted? Mine aren't I wonder if that is the problem?
Thanks for replying!

Yes, they should stay highlighted. If they're not that's probably the problem.

BirdOPrey5 · #**143** 03-25-2011, 12:43 PM

You could override the forums setting in options be editing two plugins...

In plugin Manager edit these two plugins:
Enable Anonymous Posting (Posts)
Enable Anonymous Posting (Threads)

Change this line in each from:

Code:

	$anonyforums = explode(',',$vbulletin->options['zointsanony_forums']);

to:

Code:

	$anonyforums = array(2, 3 4, 5);

where 2, 3, 4, 5 are the forumids of the forums you want to enable anonymous posting in, use as many or as few as you want.

I don't know why the forums wouldn't stay selected though, may be the sign of a bigger problem. Does being enabled Yes/No stick to Yes at least? If not this won't help.

Daisyboo · #**144** 03-25-2011, 02:55 PM

I tried selecting no and it worked and I tried selecting just one forum and that worked so its the fact I'm selecting more than one.
I'm using Ctrl when I select the forums, should I use something else? If that is the problem then I'll try your suggestion - thanks for that, much appreciated!

Daisyboo · #**145** 03-25-2011, 02:59 PM

Ahhh ok ignore that I kept selecting and they finally all worked. Strange that!

StarBuG · #**146** 07-27-2011, 08:01 AM

Did anyone get this to work with 4.1.4 with the new editor?

Fready · #**147** 07-27-2011, 12:54 PM

Does it not work with the 4.1.4 new editor?

StarBuG · #**148** 07-28-2011, 06:36 PM

Not for me, no

EDIT: Got it to work again. It was a conflict with one of my own mods

Tyran1 · #**149** 08-16-2011, 07:41 AM

Blog and Groups ???

Art Andrews · #**150** 09-15-2011, 10:03 PM

I am trying to install this to 3.8 and getting a DB error when I try to install the plugin. Any ideas on why that would be?

BirdOPrey5 · #**151** 09-15-2011, 11:03 PM

It would help if you could post a copy of the db error.

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