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This modification has been withdrawn.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.

[CountRock]

Works great with 4.1.6~

[TheSSDReview]

Is there a version that works with 4.1.1?

[Paul M]

Check post #248.

[TheSSDReview]

Installed!

[imranbaig]

4.1.5 Internal Server Error, Upgrading the Forum to 4.1.7 to see if it works.

[vanquish.securi]

Works great on vB 4.1.7 default template. Much needed. Marked install, nominated, 5 star.

[DragonMasterNYC]

I have one small suggestion, could we get an option to always merge the post if we don't want to deal with the time limit. I've had a few instances that the system doesn't merge post even though I've set the time to 99999999... Any help to solve this problem is much appreciated.

Thanks ahead of time
Dragon

[Paul M]

Thats probably because one of them had attachments, not the time limit.

[Paul M]

Version number updated to be consisteant with other updates.
Note this is only available for 4.1.4 onwards due to the editor update and autosave.

[Crotan]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Version number updated to be consisteant with other updates.
Note this is only available for 4.1.4 onwards due to the editor update and autosave.

Was this update in name only?