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This modification has been withdrawn.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.

[Webbstre]

Originally Posted by Paul M

vbulletin does not allow duplicate posts within a 5 minute time window anyway.

Odd, because I get double posts relatively often.

[pitt34]

Doesn't work on my 4.0.5 board.

[General of the]

works great on vb 4.0.5

[sulasno]

will it work on 4.0.6 ?

[Paul M]

No reason it shouldnt.

[onehost]

Working on v4.0.6

nice mod...

[Deib]

Using this mod on 4.0.4 Interesting problem.
The people complaining of double posts before were typically users logging in and posting with their phones, or cell services.

We installed this mod and it stopped that problem, BUT people that typically have never double posted are now double posting all the time.

Any thoughts?

[ijob]

This is a great mod cheers.

One question:

One the merge is done, if this is uninstalled in then future, do the posts return to their original separate thread/ post? Or is it permanent?

[lubbie]

Sry wrong Mod

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by ijob

This is a great mod cheers.

One question:

One the merge is done, if this is uninstalled in then future, do the posts return to their original separate thread/ post? Or is it permanent?

Permanent.