Allow members to report own posts

What this plugin does:

vBulletin does not (no longer) allow a user to report their own posts. This plugin allows you to enable (or disable by deactivation) reporting own posts.

On some forums there are quite a few threads started and after a set period members want to report those threads to be moved by moderators. without it, members need to PM moderators and provide a link to the post and/or thread, which is a lot of make-work, especially when some members don't know how to provide links, so they'll PM something like "Go to that sub-forum, look in page 7, second thread from the top"!

This can alternatively be done by editing two templates (per template set), postbit and legacy psotbit. But you will need to make those edits to disable/enable this behavious. A plugin is much cleaner, and easier.

Installation: Upload the plugin xml file through your admincp plugin manager.


Please click Install if you have installed this mod.

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

i have the feeling it is turning into a i am right, no i am right one.

I think it started like that.

[MJM]

Thanks very much for this!
We're using this in conjunction with 3.54 Reported post creates new thread in specified private forum which allows for member usergroup to view and reply to their own reported post. (and mods/admin can correspond to)

Can Post Threads - Yes
Can View Others' Threads - No
Can Reply to Own Threads - Yes

Will be trying this plugin later tonight on 3.6 RC1 using the new default
Reported post creates new thread in specified forum.

Here's to hoping it will work.

Cheers,
Mark

[MJM]

Re: Member can report own post in 3.6 RC2 ... Freddie says in this post
"I believe it is still hidden in the postbit template so you'll just need to modify the template."

But I don't know how to do that, so we installed this plugin in our 3.6 RC2 and it seems to work fine.

Thanks!
Mark