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dayve
Forum Moderator
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 Posted - 05 June 2002 : 13:00:01
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I had a mod in my version 3.1 where an admin could hide a post just as they would if they were to delete or lock a topic. This proved useful for spammers and those with malicious intent because it hid the post from the regular members while allowing the moderators and administrators to keep the post in tact for use to show to ISP's and record keeping purposes.
I have not yet applied that to my 3.3 but I will very shortly. I want to compliment this type of mod with a HIDE forum code feature that Crash mentioned awhile ago he was working on. I've seen this feature at InfoPOP or some other forum and what it allows a moderator/administrator to do is encapsulate text withing tags like this:
[hide]regular members can not see this. used for commenting on someones post[/hide]
what happens then is regular members can not see this info but moderators and administrators can. I thought about keeping it simple and using something in the inc_functions.asp using replace where my HIDE tags would be this:
<div style="visibility:hidden">regular members can not see this. used for commenting on someones post</div id="hide">
This of course based on the mLev. However, any web developer knows that this only hides it from the page and in fact the comments can be retrieved simply by viewing the source.
Anyway, I have other ideas to replace ALL characters between the tags with blanks but not sure if that is the best approach either. So, finally my question is, does anyone have any input on this idea. I am looking for the "best" approach on this. I have a lot of idea on how it can be done, but I like efficiency, simplicity and of course practical functionality.
Thanks to all in advance for their input..
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Edited by - dayve on 05 June 2002 13:03:52 |
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Nathan
Help Moderator
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Posted - 05 June 2002 : 18:37:41
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Well, if you ran it through a system like the image tags do, to sort out the content of the [hide] section. Then you could only send it to mods and admins rather than to everyone.
I think sending it in the HTML to everyone could be considered a security breach.
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dayve
Forum Moderator
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Posted - 05 June 2002 : 18:49:09
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I think sending it in the HTML to everyone could be considered a security breach.
agreed, which is why I will not be using dhtml (div layer) for this.. care to elaborate on your idea?
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
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Posted - 05 June 2002 : 19:24:33
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the person would also be able to view the comments if they edited their post (and remove them too).
Probably would be better to keep the comments separate from the message in the database. Maybe just add another field to the topics table T_COMMENT (and R_COMMENT to the reply table). Then you'll have greater control over who can view it(using mLev) |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
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Posted - 05 June 2002 : 19:32:32
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good point.., just seems like a waste of space in the database for something that will not be used in every post, but I am not discounting this idea.
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Nathan
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Posted - 05 June 2002 : 20:27:31
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Humm, how about if you added just a 1/0 to the field T_Comment or R_comment
Then you could put them in their own table as COMMENT_ID / TOPIC_ID / REPLY_ID / COMMENT_TEXT
Nathan Bales
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dayve
Forum Moderator
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Posted - 05 June 2002 : 22:57:55
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Humm, how about if you added just a 1/0 to the field T_Comment or R_comment
Then you could put them in their own table as COMMENT_ID / TOPIC_ID / REPLY_ID / COMMENT_TEXT
Nathan Bales
Snitz Exchange | Do's and Dont's
why didn't I think of that earlier... I always forget to think relational at times... that may be the key... thanks Nathan, I will report back on this once I decide to go with it, just in case anyone is interested.
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