Post posts in threads, and only allows mods to read them!

One of the best ideas I've had lately, if I may say so myself.

First of all, if you moderate new posts in your forum do NOT, do NOT install this hack!
Don't come to me crying if you do install it.
Read down to understand why.
And while I have your attention, don't bother asking for a version that works with moderation of new posts. There is a reason why I chose to use this system, and it would take a LOT (and I mean, really really a lot) of hacking to do this without that system.

Second, in case you were wondering, this hack is NOT the infamous Lockdown hack.
The only resemblance is that posts are hidden in this hack... that is all.

This hacks allows moderators and admins to post new posts in threads, and make these posts only readable by other mods and admins, meaning others users can't see them.
This is very handy when you need to ask a fellow moderator something in regard to a thread he replied to, etc.
Or, of course, if you want to talk behind the users' back. (as someone else cleverly pointed out )

I'm afraid I can't give you a demo or a screen shot of this hack, but imagine this.
In second thought, take a look here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...&postid=211039
When you reply, if you are a mod, you have a new checkbox at the bottom of the screen, asking you if you'd like to hide this post.
If you check that box, the reply will be hidden from everyone except for mods and admins - they will see the post and a bolded message next to it to tell them it's hidden (so they won't quote that post in a regular post!).

That's all there is to it.

This hack basically puts hidden posts into moderation. I modified showthread.php a bit to only show un-moderated posts to mods, and this is how it works.
If you moderate new posts in your forum and install this hack, your moderators will:
a) See all un-moderated posts, basically all new posts.
b) When they go to validate these posts, the hidden posts posted by mods and admins will be on the list, and your mods might unintentionally validate these posts as well, and by that un-hiding them.

Download the attached .txt file and follow the instructions there.
There are a bit more things to edit than usual, so I suggest you edit all the files at once and then upload them together.
After you're done with the files do the template changes.

Good luck and enjoy this hack!

[Admin]

Sorry DelusionalMind, I had an error in my wording. Download the file again.

[pipi]

Originally posted by FireFly

Move the thread to a mods private forum.

Lucky - what hack exactly are you talking about?

Exactly i want set it for special users group and i have more than 30 boards with different material, i would like let it stay, just keep hide for ppl whos do not have permission to read it.

thanks again

[TheComputerGuy]

I would like to thank Firefly, you da man

[Lucky]

Originally posted by FireFly
Lucky - what hack exactly are you talking about?

I was referring to this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=33473

I was just wandering if you had it installed here.

[Admin]

No Lucky, I don't.

[DelusionalMind]

Originally posted by FireFly
Sorry DelusionalMind, I had an error in my wording. Download the file again.

Thanks

You rule dude Many thanks

[Austin Dea]

erm...that's not the problem...I was wondering if maybe anything around where those codes should go would affect that. Like maybe i put somehting where it shouldnt go etc. Thing is, i don't think functions.php and showthread.php have anything to do with posts....do they?

I took out the $post[hidden] in the postbit template and nothing happened...so i guess there is something wrong with showthread....but i can't figure out what...

My question was, since you guys are like mega-pros at the vB coding, what did i do? Do you know of something in that code that would make those thicklines appear?

[Sadie Frost]

I'm going to have to uninstall this hack because I have members posts going hidden - even when a mod hasn't hidden a post in that thread.

I really liked it while I had it though

[NeoGT]

I just installed this hack, and it seems to work great except for one small problem. Wherever there is a multiple page thread, the numbers (1,2,3) denoting the page numbers are now missing. The only way to access other pages is by selecting them from the topics list page. Did I screw something up?

[Admin]

Probably a bug with the hack, I'll see if I can track it down.