A few questions..

[griffinzx10]

Hello All, I had some rather simple questions..
1. How do I remove the post count for my community? So this way postwhoring doenst run so rampid..

2. I would like to add a small banner under the members name/title/avatar something like if they contribute to the site, a small contributor banner. How do I do that??

[griffinzx10]

??? Anyone ???

[Lynne]

1. If you want absolutely no post counts, you can set it up so none of the forums even count posts. Forums & Moderators > Forum Manager > Select the forum to Edit > Count Posts Made in this Forum Towards User Post Counts > No

If you want to have post counts, but not show them, then you could just edit out that part of your postbit templates and the memberinfo template.

2. Search in the Mods forums for "donator" ("All Mods", "Titles Only") and I think you'll find something.

[Princeton]

you may be able to do question # 2 via User Ranks

[griffinzx10]

Originally Posted by Lynne

If you want to have post counts, but not show them, then you could just edit out that part of your postbit templates and the memberinfo template.

2. Search in the Mods forums for "donator" ("All Mods", "Titles Only") and I think you'll find something.

Lynn I like this idea still having the site track the posts, but not show in the users profiles, so this way, people dont go on postwhoring tangents trying to out post +++++ another person. How would I do that??

2. Thanks..

Originally Posted by Princeton

you may be able to do question # 2 via User Ranks

Princeton, thanks for the reply, but I am looking to do a small banner that I can drop into their public profile, or the part that shows with every post they make. Kind of like a badge, like, hey I contributed to the site...

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by griffinzx10

Lynn I like this idea still having the site track the posts, but not show in the users profiles, so this way, people dont go on postwhoring tangents trying to out post +++++ another person. How would I do that??

In both postbit and postbit_legacy is a line like this:

<div>$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]</div>

Either remove it or comment it out. Also in MEMBERINFO (3.6.8) are these lines:

<tr>
	<td>
	$vbphrase[total_posts]: <strong>$userinfo[posts]</strong> (<phrase 1="$postsperday">$vbphrase[x_posts_per_day]</phrase>)
	</td>
</tr>

You may remove them.

I think those are the only places post counts come up.

Originally Posted by griffinzx10

Princeton, thanks for the reply, but I am looking to do a small banner that I can drop into their public profile, or the part that shows with every post they make. Kind of like a badge, like, hey I contributed to the site...

User Ranks may be small little images or text. They show up in both the postbit and in MEMBERINFO. Basically, you put all your contributors into a Secondary Group and then you can give members in that group a little 'badge' or whatever in their posts/memberinfo.

[griffinzx10]

Thanks....

[griffinzx10]

Originally Posted by Lynne

In both postbit and postbit_legacy is a line like this:

<div>$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]</div>

Either remove it or comment it out. Also in MEMBERINFO (3.6.8) are these lines:

<tr>
	<td>
	$vbphrase[total_posts]: <strong>$userinfo[posts]</strong> (<phrase 1="$postsperday">$vbphrase[x_posts_per_day]</phrase>)
	</td>
</tr>

You may remove them.

I think those are the only places post counts come up.


User Ranks may be small little images or text. They show up in both the postbit and in MEMBERINFO. Basically, you put all your contributors into a Secondary Group and then you can give members in that group a little 'badge' or whatever in their posts/memberinfo.

Lynn couple questions about this:

1. how do I comment out, I want it to be reversable if we change our mind

2. I have to comment out those lines in 3 places?
Postbit
postbit_legacy
MEMBERINFO

[Lynne]

1. In html, you would comment out a section by surrounding it with:

<!--
html you don't want shown
-->

However, the information will still be there in the source code. So, if a user wants to see what there post count is, they could be sneaky and look at the source code. If you remove it, you should be able to get it back by either reverting the template, clicking on Show Default in the template and finding the code, or clicking on View History in the template and then selecting the current template and the default template and clicking Compare Versions for it to show you the differences.

2. I think so. I'm not sure where else it would show up. Those are the places that immediately come to mind. You could do a search in your templates for "posts" and see what comes up.

[griffinzx10]

Thanks Lynne