New Posting Features - Doublepost Prevention

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This is an updated version of the popular modification, previously released by Xenon. It is released with his kind permission.

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.

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.

Spacer Colour - allows you to set the colour of the spacer between merged posts.

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

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

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:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vB 3.8.
v3.8.002 : Phrased the post separater.
v3.8.003 : Added JS Template - removing need to edit quick reply javascript file.
v3.8.004 : Updated spacer options.
v3.8.005 : Updated timestamp spacer to fix issue with large merge times.

[ricardoNJ]

I have a "Database error"

[Paul M]

and would you like to share that error .....

[yamahapaul]

I cann't believe that its taken me over 12 months to find this great mod! thanks Paul :up:

[Paul M]

This was was only released 7 months ago

.... although the original Xenon version has been around much longer

[ForumUser210]

Whaaat?

This mod isn't working right. Or it's being interfered by another mod.

Because when I use the quick reply box, instead of the message, it will post "Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply."

And sometimes, instead of adding the new post the member wrote, it will repeat the same post from before! And the new post disappears into thin air.

Something not right about this mod.

[Log on]

great job

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by ForumUser210

Something not right about this mod.

Given that over 600 people (min) are using it, including me, without any issues. Im going to bet that the mod is fine, and you have a local issue.

[TimberFloorAu]

Can I make a request Paul.

Can this be configured so that we can edit the time stamp message ?

[Paul M]

The message is a phrase, you are free to edit it.

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by Paul M

The message is a phrase, you are free to edit it.

Thanks