With it you can turn on moderation only for certain usergroups, so you can have a group of "trusted" users that don't need moderation.
I also split it to two options: moderate new threads and new replies, so you can only moderate new threads and not replies if you want.
To install this hack download the attached file (modusergroup.hack.php), upload to your /admin folder and use vbHacker.
Anyway, have fun, hope this is useful.
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This is probably the most useful hack in my forums. It really lets me keep the morons from getting their messages into view by the public, yet I never have to bother moderating messages from the rest of the users.
If you go to the very first message in this thread, the word "VBHacker" is a link to the VBHacker. Installation is a piece of cake, and I doubt that you'll need any instructions beyond what you find there. If you do, please feel free to e-mail me.
This is probably the most useful hack in my forums. It really lets me keep the morons from getting their messages into view by the public, yet I never have to bother moderating messages from the rest of the users.
Exaaaactly!
I have a forum, which has its fair share of new sign-ups that flagrantly violate the no-spam policy, and sometimes to amazing extremes. For this reason, I too am forced to moderate just about everything. The only other option is to assign, (the good users) moderator privileges, and scale back the options, but it?s tedious, and also causes confusion for the other users--- Um.. Why are there 30 moderators? Hehe... I eventually gave up on this one
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Originally posted by steveprice
If you go to the very first message in this thread, the word "VBHacker" is a link to the VBHacker. Installation is a piece of cake, and I doubt that you'll need any instructions beyond what you find there. If you do, please feel free to e-mail me.
Appreciate the help Steve. Everything is installed, and works awesome! I would also like to extend a thanks to Firefly for his many wonderful contributions that never cease to amaze me.
Actually, I wouldn't mind having a few more instructions either. I installed it (quite easily) on my board (2.2.7) and there were boxes under user groups asking whether I wanted to moderate the group or not. However, even after marking them "yes" the groups were able to post freely. I'm guessing there are some other settings that need to be changed in order for it to work, but I have no clue what they are.
- Go to Forums & Moderators
- Select Modify
- Select the ?Edit? on the forum that was previously set to ?moderate the posts.?
- If moderation is enabled, ?disabled? it.
Now, go to:
- Modify User Groups--- Select ?Modify.?
- Select ?Edit? on the forum you want to moderate
- Scroll down to the ?moderate? option and turn it on.
- In your ?trusted? group, scroll down and do that same thing, except ?disable? moderation.
As I see it, the hack controls moderation from through the individual Usergroups, as opposed to the ?actual? single forum itself. I thing I got that right
In any event, if this is not the problem, sorry for wasting your time, but I hope it helps to some degree.
I have a small problem with this one I do the sql query and I get this during the install
Quote:
Query number 1:
The query "ALTER TABLE usergroup ADD moderatethread SMALLINT(6) UNSIGNED DEFAULT "0"
NOT NULL, ADD moderatepost SMALLINT(6) UNSIGNED DEFAULT "0" NOT NULL" was not executed due to database errors.
I got this trying to do the same thing in phpmyadmin
Quote:
Error
SQL-query :
ALTER TABLE usergroup ADD moderatethread SMALLINT(6) UNSIGNED DEFAULT "0" NOT NULL, ADD moderatepost SMALLINT(6) UNSIGNED DEFAULT "0" NOT NULL
MySQL said:
Duplicate column name 'moderatethread'
I do have several mods installed so I am thinking it is having a conflict with something I had to do in another mod.
I'm still having problems. I have the hack installed on my live board now and it doesn't seem to work there either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Okay, I figured out what the problem(s) were. Or at least, I got it working now (I have essentially no knowledge in php or mysql, so this may have been obvious to others but it wasn't to me). In case anyone cares, in newreply.php this code was put in
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// auto bypass queueing for admins/mods
if (ismoderator($foruminfo[forumid])) {
$visible=1;
} elseif ($permissions['moderatepost']) {
$visible=0;
}
I had to take out the apostrophes around moderatepost (and moderatethread for newthread.php) in order for it to read the correct value from the table.
Even after that, the moderation didn't work on replies, just new threads.
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09-02-2002, 06:12 PM
I tried doing it that way, but it didn't work. It's still either totally moderating or not by forum.
