Moderator management system

tested with 3.0.3

You went into a lot of trouble selecting the moderators for your forum, you created a set of rules, told them what you expected from them. Now, how do you know if they are really moderating?

Of course, if you have 3 forums and 3 moderators, it's not big deal. But if you have 5+ moderators then this tool might be useful.

I wanted to receive an alert when my moderators were absent, or when they were in the forum but weren't doing any moderation at all... also I want my moderators to be active posters. But checking on every one of them is time consuming. That's why I made this tool.

With it you receive an alert pm if:

• a moderator has been absent for more than x days
• a moderator has not modded (edited/deleted/moved/closed) for more than z days
• a moderator has not posted in HIS forum for more than y days
• a moderator has nos posted for more than y days
• a moderator has not created a new thread in HIS forums for more than y days
• a moderator has not created a thread globally for more than y days
• a moderator has failed to OPEN and potentially read at least x percent threads in HIS forum in the last week

Installation instructions:

1)
Upload the files in the .zip file to your forum. Make sure that you follow the directory structure in the zip file.
modmanagement.php goes in the root of your forum
functions_modmanagement.php goes to the includes/ directory
modmanagement_cron.php goes into the includes/cron/ directory
modmanagement_install.php goes into the admincp directory

2)
Open the modmanagement_install.php in your browser

3)
That's it No file modifications, no template modifications

Customization:
- Go to vbulletin options and change how many posts a moderator should do in how many days, how long can someone be inactive, etc.
- Go to the scheduled tasks and you can change the cron job. By default, it sends the alerts sunday morning.

Other options:
Open modmanagement.php in your browser to see a summary of the moderators activity.

Even more customization:
Note: You should really test that the hack is working and that you like it before doing anything else

*optional* For integration in the admincp and a link in every page, you need some file modifications, here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....5&postcount=27

*optional* The summary page can only be accesed by administrators. If you want to give access to supermoderators or moderators, here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....9&postcount=64


Info for hackers:
You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[sv1cec]

Today, I received the first PMs from this hack. All fine and well, except that they didn't increase the admins unread PM's number, not did they trigger the fact that there were unread PMs.

Any ideas???

Tnx and rgds
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John

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Today, I received the first PMs from this hack. All fine and well, except that they didn't increase the admins unread PM's number, not did they trigger the fact that there were unread PMs.

Any ideas???

Tnx and rgds
-------------
John

I fixed that a couple of days ago, you'll need to redownload the zip and replace the .php files except the installation file

[SaN-DeeP]

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

I fixed that a couple of days ago, you'll need to redownload the zip and replace the .php files except the installation file

i have the newest version but have this problem , i have around 25+ unread PMs in my box but my private messages shows 0 new

Regards,

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

i have the newest version but have this problem , i have around 25+ unread PMs in my box but my private messages shows 0 new

Regards,

Maybe they were send before you installed the latest version? That's what happened with me too, but I have to assume they were send before, because next day I received about 40 of them and got warned all right. I'll have a more ... concrete opinion next Sunday!! LoL

Rgds
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John

[Reef]

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

I am trying to provide a fix, but I cannot identify where the problem is.

Some people have installed it in 3.0.1 succesfully, but Lionel has the weirdest behaviour I have seen or read, and I installed a copy of vb3.0.1 in my local machine to test it and it ran without problems. Unless there is another conflicting hack or server setting that I am not aware of there is no good reason for it not to work.... maybe I can check your website or test site to see if I can identify what the problem is?

I also had the white page problem but found a fix for my board (not sure if it will work for all)

Open modmanagement.php

Search for:

PHP Code:

$globaltemplates = array(
    'MODMANAGEMENT',
        'modmanagement_bit'
); 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

$globaltemplates = array(
     'modmanagement_bit'
); 


Hope this will help someone else

This a great Mod,, Thanks for your efforts Kentaurus

[The Realist]

One this thats annoying me is when it sends a PM informing the admin what a mod or mods have been up to, the email says "Blah Blah has not posted in his forum in the last 30 days"

Now I have moderators that mod more than one forum so how would I know from this what forum its refuring to?

Can this hack be changed so the PM's state what forums its on about.

Laters

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by The Realist

One this thats annoying me is when it sends a PM informing the admin what a mod or mods have been up to, the email says "Blah Blah has not posted in his forum in the last 30 days"

Now I have moderators that mod more than one forum so how would I know from this what forum its refuring to?

Can this hack be changed so the PM's state what forums its on about.

Laters

Right now, it can't. But I'll take the suggestion for improvements in a future version As it is now it monitors all forums as a whole. If the pm says that he hasn't posted in the last 30 days it means he hasn't posted in ANY of his forums in the last 30 days. Sounds pretty bad to me.

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by Kentaurus

Right now, it can't. But I'll take the suggestion for improvements in a future version As it is now it monitors all forums as a whole. If the pm says that he hasn't posted in the last 30 days it means he hasn't posted in ANY of his forums in the last 30 days. Sounds pretty bad to me.

This PM function needs improvement. This morning, it reported to me that ... I was inactive. I am the admin (and act as moderator as well) and I've done several mod work the last few days. However, as someone pointed out, if a mod has more than one forums, the PM gets send even if he has moderated all of them but one. What's worst, is that it does not tell you, for which forum the PM was issued.

I am keeping the statistics, but removing the cron job.

Rgds

[Kaitou]

Great hack!
This certanly makes it a lot easier to see if a mod isn't around for some reason.
I have also modified it slightly, to show in the percent read column:
"25 of 76, 33%" or "12 of 13, 92%" because the pure percent can be a bit misleading, and it helps to see if the mod is just not paying attention, of if they are swamped, and a co-mod may be needed.

[68 Z-28]

You are WONDERFUL. I've been having these sort of problems with the mods on my site, and this will work wonders. Will be great for removing moderators as well