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.

[Zoints]

Originally Posted by Jack Black

Apparently the "Currently Active User's " list shows who is creating post's in whatever section you have set to anonymous......making somewhat less anonymous?

Yeah, not a whole lot that can be done with that. That's part of the reason I have that system turned off. It's quite a privacy killer.

[Mum]

Originally Posted by voclain

Just wondering...alot of my people like to use the QUICK REPLY box...is there a way to add the "anonymous check box" in the quick reply?????

Has any fix been found for this yet? I'm going to have to uninstall shortly, as people want anon, but the quick reply is more wanted.

At the moment i've got quick reply turned off

[HMBeaty]

Ok, I JUST noticed this as a user pointed it out to me, I also checked the product to see if that was the problem. Anyway, here is the problem I am having......my Zoints Anon Posting FAQ...........is not in English, its the same way in the product. Can I get this translated to English please?

My FAQ:
http://redlinemotorsports.org/forum/...ointsanony_faq

And here's the code in the Product:

		<phrasetype name="FAQ Text" fieldname="faqtext">
			<phrase name="zointsanony_faq" date="0" username="" version=""><![CDATA[Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Sed ac tortor at quam bibendum egestas. Sed et quam. Vivamus ligula nulla, varius eget, fringilla convallis, dictum quis, pede. Aliquam eros lorem, malesuada vel, imperdiet quis, lobortis et, nisi. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Fusce pretium velit non urna. Nullam dui. Phasellus feugiat. Cras dolor erat, commodo sed, sodales nec, lacinia vel, leo. Donec dignissim. 

Donec imperdiet arcu sit amet pede. Suspendisse nibh metus, lacinia at, tincidunt id, porttitor vel, enim. Pellentesque fermentum, felis sed interdum ullamcorper, neque ligula ultricies ipsum, a sodales libero nisl ac elit. Nullam felis velit, imperdiet ac, iaculis ut, facilisis non, orci. Nam id lorem. Nam malesuada rhoncus quam. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Duis laoreet lectus sed justo. Vestibulum iaculis imperdiet nibh. Duis orci dolor, dignissim id, elementum vel, condimentum et, massa. Maecenas ligula elit, commodo quis, lobortis nec, lacinia at, justo. Donec auctor leo sit amet lorem. Quisque tellus. Curabitur sodales, arcu vestibulum tincidunt ultricies, erat tortor tempus purus, at tempus leo pede sit amet.]]></phrase>
		</phrasetype>

Please help

[HMBeaty]

Anyone care to translate this for me please?

[Zoints]

That is latin placeholder text. Put whatever you want in there to explain the product.

[Cheertobi]

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.

Same here, I am still on a 3.6.2 forum with all patches and cannot get it work ;(

I hope after my update next week up to 3.6.4 it will work!

Tobi

[Cheertobi]

That's strange, the anonym log is written, but the username is still the one of the poster ;(

Seems to be something with the postbit! Forumdisplay shows anonymous as last poster...

[Cheertobi]

Sorted it out, seems to be a vbseo problem ;(

[msimplay]

Originally Posted by DChapman

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.

I'd just tell my users to use invisible mode if they want to post anonymously

[Discussions]

Originally Posted by msimplay

I'd just tell my users to use invisible mode if they want to post anonymously

Being in invisible mode doesn't make your posts anonymous.