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This modification has been withdrawn.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.

[ngkong]

thanks paul, installed

[argothiusz]

Work on 4.0.1, can you make the double post merge into the original post?

Thanks and installed

[SuperGLS]

Paul, love it, thanks!

Working fine on 4.0.0PL1.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by argothiusz

Work on 4.0.1, can you make the double post merge into the original post?

?? Thats what it does.

[Elmer]

Works great, thanks for updating it.

[willy888]

thnaks

[Skyrider]

Lovely, installed, thanks!

[beduino]

Thank you Paul,

A single question: I see the default time to consider 'double post' is 120 minutes. If we reduce this [to 10 minutes, for example] this will heave any impact in our server? Or my question is just silly? [and we can reduce this time interval?]

thank you, again

[princeedward]

thanks....paul...great update...

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by beduino

Thank you Paul,

A single question: I see the default time to consider 'double post' is 120 minutes. If we reduce this [to 10 minutes, for example] this will heave any impact in our server? Or my question is just silly? [and we can reduce this time interval?]

thank you, again

No, it will not have any impact.