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Well, I really don't like these things. I personally think they're kinda silly. Well, I just don't believe in trying to force activity on a forum.
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But I'm always surprised at how many people want this - in fact, I've received a number of PMs from people requesting this.
Ahh well, it's not hard to make anyway
So here it is.
Description:
This will hide links and content posted within [hide] tags to all users, except those who have replied to the thread, or those who are moderators.
Features:
- Admin can choose whether this only affects the first post, or all posts in the thread
- Specifiable messages for posts and quotes
- Will correctly parse out links even from multi-quoting across forums and threads
- Links automatically shown to Mods/Admins
- Will also hide stuff placed in [hide] tags
Of course, a simple work around is to post in the thread, grab the links, then delete the post...
Download available here
You managed to do it without any code modifications? Wow, I might have to try it.
And of course, there is no simple work around if the member can't delete their post.
Which I think is silly. Why make a post just to delete it?
judel Wrote:And of course, there is no simple work around if the member can't delete their post. Which I think is silly. Why make a post just to delete it?
Well, what's the point of forcing users to post? I tend to generally only post useful things - if I can't think of anything useful, well, and I'm forced to post, I'll just post junk, grab the links, and delete them.
But generally, I walk away from forums which force contributions - dunno, I guess I've been scammed too many times in the past...
As for not doing it without code modifications, this does some, somewhat, ugly things internally - it has to emulate various parts of MyBB so that it can inject it's own code in.
Thanks.
lol....can I request something!
Its a nice thing....but I would like if it allowed users to only click to see hidden things & no need to post.....for guests the "click" (may be an image) thing will be replaced by a "no permission" sort of thing!
Why would you want users to click? Are you looking for a spoiler tag? There's ones available.
There's also a mod to hide links from guests, I believe.
Hide links from guests mod,which is already available, hides all the links & not user selectable....
I actually need to give the users option to hide there links which needn't to reply to see & still always hidden from guests.
EDIT: Well the intention to make it clickable is to integrate it with "thanks" or "myps" system of my forum.
That's a bit of an odd idea.
I may think about a "pay to view links" or something for MyPlaza...
Thanks for suggestions.
Can the replacement text replaced by image? So hidden content will show up as image
Enter the HTML code for the image in the "Link Replacement (posts, HTML)" setting.