Prevent Doubleposting

When a User posts into a thread where he already has the lastpost, no new post will be added. The lastpost of him will be edited and the new text is put after his first message, attachments will be added to the old post as well.
This will be done until the old post is older than 1 hour (you can change this timespan yourself)
by changing $do_bump in the script, you can define wether the post's time will be altered or not.

Enjoy, and don't forget to click install

Notice: If you have installed the Proxy ip to real ip conversion or Proxy Detector v3.1 Hack, then you should probably take a look at this post.

[InsaneContender]

Nice hack. It would be very nice if you could split the post apart if someone double posted. Such as adding a horizontal rule or such inbetween posts to know what is a new post and such.

[Xenon]

well, you can design the split yourself.
But it is just possible to use codes, whcih a user is able to use as well.

but if you want to add a -------------------------------- or whatever, you can do so

[chrisvonc]

Another great addition, thank you. This will definatly help cut down "post count padders".

[Agent XY]

Very great hack !!

*install*

[Baptizer]

Quick Question: I have this installed and it is working great. However, is there anyway I can get it to do the following? I have it set to do the following:
-User cannot double post within a 24 hour window (got this working)
-Posts are not bumped if they double post within a 24 hour window

Is there a way to add an 'edit' comment to the thread that got merged because of a double post? Currently, when a user double posts it does not say ' Last edited by xxx : 21. Jan 2004 at 16:47. Reason: '

[chrisvonc]

If I understand you right, post 24 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=24) has a tip that lets you define a comment for double posts. Also note the correction in post #25 as well.

[Andreas]

@Xenon
It seems like this hack does provide some kind of "backdoor": It allows the user to add more images to his post then he would normally be allowed to have.

Furthermore, it seems like this adds a query whenever a new reply is posted.
What about adding $threadinfo['lastposter'] == $bbuserinfo['username'] to the condition before $doublepost = ...?

As this evaluates to false if there is no double post (and thus the whole term will be false) it's not necessary to continue evaluating the query, or am I wrong?

[Xenon]

@Kirby: hmm, right, the backdoor is possible, will have to take a look at it...

As for the second part. yes, you can avoid the query in the if clause, by that, but you will still need the query when you update the post later (because of deleting the postindex, updating the pagetext...

Also as we have had some problems sometimes, when the lastposter cache isn't correctly or something like, then the string compare would resolve incorrectly.

I think it doesn't matter that much, but i'll consider it when i have the time to look through all of my hacks soon

[Xenon]

Hmm, i was just thinking: Sometimes, when users make doublepost it is, because they just can post a special ammount of images per post.

So, the question is, should i really fix that 'backdoor'?

[Oblivion Knight]

Originally Posted by Xenon

Hmm, i was just thinking: Sometimes, when users make doublepost it is, because they just can post a special ammount of images per post.

So, the question is, should i really fix that 'backdoor'?

You raise a valid point, and in my opinion it shouldn't be fixed (or if it is, make it some kind of option if possible).

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Xenon

Hmm, i was just thinking: Sometimes, when users make doublepost it is, because they just can post a special ammount of images per post.

So, the question is, should i really fix that 'backdoor'?

Of course you should fix it. What is the sense of having an image limit if they can get around it like that?

[Xenon]

nice to get two totally different answers ^^

well, i'll think about it ^^

[Andreas]

Well, actually I got a couple of users who explicitly use this got get more images into their posts

[Xenon]

Ok, i have uploaded Version 1.4.

It now checks if the new post is valid regarding the settings (max images/ max characters...)
If it is, then it will merge the post, if it's not, then the new post will be a true doublepost.

I did it that way, because the limit will appear when doing an edit on a merged post otherwise.

Also i have removed a bit overhead of the code.

My test worked well, but i consider it as RC, until some of you can confirm they don't have problems (there shouldn't be, but you cannot be too sure )

[Merjawy]

Really nice and needed hack thnx Xenon

my question and forgive me if it was mentioned before, what if a user clicks the Quick Reply icon to replay to the first post and clicked it again to replay lets say to the 3rd post in there and clicked again to reply to the 6th reply in there, would this hack merge all 3 posts as you see there seperate replies

Thnx