New Posting Features - Zoints Anonymous Posting - Improved privacy for members

Have you ever wanted to discuss something on a forum but never posted because you didn't want people to know it was you? To solve this problem, we created an anonymous posting hack.

Via the admin control panel, you can easily choose which forum(s) allows for anonymous posting.




For anonymous enabled forums, your members then get this handly little checkbox (unchecked by default) when making a new thread or post.




If they check the box, then their post is created under the account you setup and assign as the anonymous poster. I personally created an "anonymous" username, but you can create whatever you want.




As forum owners, we all know that a few members will choose to screw around with this feature. Therefore we created an easy means to identify who created an anonymous thread/post should the need arise. Please be ethical and tell your members you can see who posted anonymously should the need arise. You can check the log by going here:




And the log looks something like this:



Official support for this modification will take place at http://network.zoints.com in this forum.


Enjoy, click install, check out Zoints' other hacks, have a great day, and all that happy jive.

[johnstires]

I have who's online turned off, so that won't affect me. I'll let this thread go a bit and see people's experiences before I install.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by abramelin

this is not working correct on my 3.6.2 forum. I am making a post and click the "make anony post" the user avatar is the avatar of the anony user ok, the profile goes to it but the most important thing username is my username in showthread.php. i think It is conflicting with EWT Last Reply and Thread Starter Username Highlight mod.

I'll be investigating the potential of a 3.6.2 issue on a clean install within 60 minutes (doing the install now) and get back to you

If anyone experiencing this issue can provide me with a very detailed step by step of when this is happening, it would be appreciated.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by abramelin

this is not working correct on my 3.6.2 forum. I am making a post and click the "make anony post" the user avatar is the avatar of the anony user ok, the profile goes to it but the most important thing username is my username in showthread.php. i think It is conflicting with EWT Last Reply and Thread Starter Username Highlight mod.

Can you link me to a thread where this happens please. I can't recreate it.

Originally Posted by amnesia623

I installed this to one forum ans tested it myself. It appeared to work ok until another user posted using this hack and it not only showed their sig, but also their username. (the anonymous avatar appeared though).

Can you link me to an example of this please? Thanks

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by amnesia623

The only way to tell if a user is posting as anonymous is that the user is shown in the 'whos online' making a thread.

This isn't good if you want to restrict this feature to one forum (like a rant/rave forum)...is there a way around it?

I'm sure there is a way, but it would require some additional hacking. We *may* add that to the system in the future, but no time soon. Others are of course welcome to post a means to remedy it. I personally have who's online off because it creeps me out from a privacy perspective.

[amnesia623]

DChapman,

I think this is a great hack and I hope I didn't come off as negative about it.

I have already removed the post and forum so I cannot provide a link, sorry.

Thanks

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by amnesia623

DChapman,

I think this is a great hack and I hope I didn't come off as negative about it.

I have already removed the post and forum so I cannot provide a link, sorry.

Thanks

Not at all Did my responses come across as agitated? If so, my apologies.

Can I talk you into turning it back on and trying to recreate the problem? If there is some strange bug around, I want to get it fixed.

[amnesia623]

i will have to reinstall the product (which I dont mind doing)

still interested? I could give you a temp login/pass if you wanted to try it

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by amnesia623

i will have to reinstall the product (which I dont mind doing)

still interested? I could give you a temp login/pass if you wanted to try it

If you can recreate the problem, yes, a temp login/pass and a link to the example would be great. Thanks!

[johnstires]

Originally Posted by DChapman

I personally have who's online off because it creeps me out from a privacy perspective.

I agree. If anyone is concerned about the privacy of their guests for the anon hack, this should be turned off. Kinda creeps me out too.

[Allan]

Great, good job

A question, it's possible to use this hack for extern page ?

If yes, which modification will be to make ?