Improved Moderator Alert System

IMPROVED MODERATOR ALERT v.1.1

Goal: Improve the way staff handles junk posts. Speed up processing time of moderator alerts from users. Make the forum meta-moddable.

Usefuleness: The default moderator alerts are useless. Why rely on email to a few people when you have a perfectly good forum system? This hack will have you create a thread in your private Moderators forum. Then as users click "Moderator Alert" under any post, the system will add a new post to your thread in the private room-- allowing all staff to see and discuss the problem immediately instead of relying on the old style email functions.


Requirements:

-Existing private moderator/admin forum
-Annoying users that violate your TOS
-Useful users that will report them


Installation:

-Create and upload one file to your forum directory
-Make one addition in functions.php
-Upload one gif
-Make one addition to the postbit template
-Add two templates


Difficulty: Somewhat Easy

Speed: Not too bad

Release: 1.1-- Feb 07, 2003

Added option to put all alerts in one post or in mutiple threads

Fixed bugs and tested both versions


Michael Knight:

[Mystic Gohan]

this will be very usefull I will install later when I have access to my forum.

[alkatraz]

Great idea!!!!!!

[Neo]

Originally posted by Overgrow
IMPROVED MODERATOR ALERT v.1.0


Michael Knight:

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[fonzerelli_79]

this is a fantastic idea

well done

[ethics]

Everyone got this to work? For some reason my $modalert is not showing up in postbit (not the code, but forum).

[Overgrow]

PHP Code:

4) open /admin/functions.php. Find:

$post['message'] = preg_replace("/\b_([a....

and AFTER IT add:

    // HACK MODALERT
    
    if ($bbuserinfo['userid']>0) { 


That's in functions, building the postbit. Make sure that is in the right place and you've uploaded the new functions.php.

Anyone else have this problem?

This is a hack of a hack that I wrote.. it's extracted functionality from a bigger hack on my site so I'm not 100% about the install.

[Mark Hewitt]

Can this be modified to start a new thread per reported post?

I would like to create a private forum just for reported posts.

[Mark Hewitt]

I have the same problem with the moderator link not appearing. In fact the text you specified in your install file does not exist in functions.php

I found something similar and put this[

$post['message']=preg_replace("#(^| |\n|\r|\t|\]|>|\")(".$val.")(([\.,]+[ $\n\r\t])|$|\"|<|\[| |\n|\r|\t)#si", "\\1<highlight>\\2</highlight>\\3", $post['message']);

// HACK MODALERT
	
	if ($bbuserinfo['userid']>0) {
		$modalert="<a href=\"modalert.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&postid=$post[postid]&username=$post[username]\"><img src=\"{imagesfolder}/modalert.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alert Moderators\"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;";
	}

	// END HACK

But that does not work.

[Overgrow]

Ahgeez.. ok I was high when I released this, I admit it.

The line you look for in functions.php is:

$post[message]=bbcodeparse($post[pagetext],$forum[forumid],$post[allowsmilie]);

Then paste the // HACK MODALERT below that... fixing the zip file above.

[wooolF[RM]]

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Originally posted by Overgrow
Ahgeez.. ok I was high when I released this, I admit it.

looking at your hair aranoid: