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:

[WebMasterAJ]

Just installed it... and it doesn't display the modalert icon

[Overgrow]

Under this in functions:
$post[message]=bbcodeparse($post[pagetext],$forum[forumid],$post[allowsmilie]);

You put the Hack?

and in postbit you put $modalert ?

I can't see any reason why it wouldn't show..?

[WebMasterAJ]

Yes, in the admin/functions.php.. I have:

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

And this is what my postbit template looks like:

<smallfont> $modalert | <a href="report.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&amp;postid=$post[postid]">Report
this post to a moderator</a> | $post[iplogged]</smallfont>

However, when you view a post... I just see:
| Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

I'm looking around for errors, but don't see any... yet... any ideas?

[ethics]

Will try the new code tonight Over.

Thanks for the fix.

[WebMasterAJ]

Nevermind... I won't even tell you why it didn't work... stupid me... lol

Thanks for your time...

WORKS GREAT!

[Overgrow]

Yea I just installed a totally clean test board... went through all my instructions.... and I realize why it didn't work for you

Don't forget to upload modalert.gif to your images directory! hehe

[WebMasterAJ]

Just curious, is it possible for this to replace the "Report this post to a moderator" link and make it also send an email to the moderators?

Meaning, can you combine your hack (to copy the post to a thread in a private forum) and also send an email to the moderators?

That would be a great addition...

If not... thanks for the great hack anyways man

[EchoHype.com]

For some reason, after I set it and all.

It posts in the wrong forum, and as a new user not registered.

Any help?

[Overgrow]

Sure, just remove the "Report this post to a moderator" link wherever that is. I don't know myself, I've never used it..

Then if you want the mods to be emailed just have them subscribe to the Mod Alert thread.

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

Yes, download again and copy out the new modalert.php of your choice.

[Overgrow]

Echo: all bugs have been fixed, I've tested both installs and versions now.. I needed a clean test board anyway!

If you re-do the modalert.php part of the install and still have problems then you should carefully check the $variables at the top of modalert.php to make sure they are set to the right user/forum/thread.