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NUKE posts [FINAL RELEASE] · **Released**: 04-01-2002

This hack gives moderators and administrators the ability to disable a post, rather than delete it.

A small asterisk is added at the side of each post. If it is clicked by a moderator, a window will flicker up. The next time the thread is viewed the post will simply be replaced with the word "Nuked", indicating that a moderator has disabled it. Such a feature you may have seen on smaller non-vbulletin forums.

Moderators still have the option to see what the post was by clicking the asterisk on a nuked post. They may also restore the post (which isn't possible with deleted posts).

http://www.gaters.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1168
The above link is an example of a nuked post. Notice the asterisks down the bottom of threads, those are the nukers.

There are many practical benefits to nuking a post instead of deleting it. It's fast, it's reversable, it gives users the knowledge that content was removed, and admins may still review the disabled content.

Installation:

You need vbHacker to install this.
Just upload the attatched data file to the /admin directory and run vbHacker to install it.

(The hack works by adding a new attribute to each post in the database which determines whether the post is nuked or not. If it is, the post is displayed through a seperate template, much like posts of ignored people.)

The Keeper · #2 04-02-2002, 05:04 AM

There seems to be some trouble with the vbhacker version of this hack.

Attatched are the instructions for a manual installation.
(It requires running an sql query)

If you've got a question, or problem, please post it in this thread.

Dade · #3 04-02-2002, 06:59 AM

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/valkyrec/public_html/forums/showthread.php on line 28

Parse error: parse error in /home/valkyrec/public_html/forums/showthread.php on line 48

And everytime I try to reinstall the hack it adds another '*', so far I've got 3 of them. I'll edit them out later. I'd really like this hack, but I can't get it to work.

69-FLy-gUy · #4 04-02-2002, 07:23 AM

the reason you have more *'s everytime you reinstall is because it is adding the query again and again.....

69-FLy-gUy · #5 04-02-2002, 07:24 AM

and i just got the same error.. are you running vb 2.2.5???

69-FLy-gUy · #6 04-02-2002, 07:31 AM

To get rid of this-> Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/valkyrec/public_html/forums/showthread.php on line 28

go to that line and where it says:

if ($action==/"showdisabled\") {

replace that with
if ($action=="showdisabled\") {
and it will work.. i am trying to figure out the parse error rioght now.

The Keeper · #7 04-02-2002, 07:50 AM

2.2.5? wtf!!

Hey is this problem you guys are having something I've done?

vbhacker seems to have put in a lot of slashes everywhere in the code.

69-FLy-gUy · #8 04-02-2002, 07:52 AM

yeah... i noticed a lot of slashes.....

I am not sure what the problem is... The Keeper.. go to install it with vbhacker, but select "get text file"

let me know if that is the right code?

The Keeper · #9 04-02-2002, 08:00 AM

Yeah that's what I did to see all those slashes. Some of the file replacements have been slashified, others haven't.

69-FLy-gUy · #10 04-02-2002, 08:08 AM

hmmmm... do you have the orig file you could post or send?