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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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 Posted - 24 January 2008 : 17:36:28
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I am working on a MOD to make a forum a "Suggestion Box", and I am looking for advice. I have some of the background code already completed, but I am debating whether or not to go as far as to have a "blank" user that the forum uses for all posts in the specified forum. This would make it totally anonymous.
The other option is to simply hide all of the user's personal information when the posts are displayed. The down side to this method is that if someone is posting a complaint about the admins/mods, their MEMBER_ID is still stored in the database. So without a whole lot of work, a vengeful admin could find out who posted.
I am leaning towards the blank user, but thought I'd see what people here had to say on the subject before doing that part of it.< |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
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phy1729
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 24 January 2008 : 17:45:34
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| Well an admin is supposed to be trusted not to do that so I'd go for an if mlev=4 then show username conditional. Also make sure you clear the last post on default.asp and forum.asp< |
Edited by - phy1729 on 24 January 2008 17:46:25 |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 24 January 2008 : 18:01:28
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I agree that an admin is supposed to be trusted. However, sometimes complaints may be *about* the admin of a forum, which would cause some users to refrain from posting if they thought/knew that the admin could figure out their identity.
As for the last post on default.asp and forum.asp, I have already taken care of both of those places so far. I will also need to change post.asp to keep a user's name out of a quoted reply.< |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 24 January 2008 : 18:05:19
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That's a good point. So... so far we have two votes for recording member ID and my inclination otherwise. It looks like the general thought may be against me here.
Side note: Podge, I think we're following each other around the threads right now. Don't worry, though. I'm about to be off work, so I won't post for at least a few minutes  .< |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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phy1729
Average Member
USA
589 Posts |
Posted - 24 January 2008 : 18:11:58
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| Well you always could put a const in config.asp such as OpinionModRecordID that will let the user choose.< |
Edited by - phy1729 on 24 January 2008 18:12:13 |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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bobby131313
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 24 January 2008 : 18:46:18
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which would cause some users to refrain from posting if they thought/knew that the admin could figure out their identity.
I think they would think that regardless of what you do.< |
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MaD2ko0l
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 January 2008 : 19:43:03
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| if u r complainign about an admin andyway...it dont really matter due to the fact that the admin says what happends...so really if u dont liek what an admin is doing u dont have to go to that admins forum at all and its 1 less person to contribute to there forum...u cannot please everyone :-)< |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 24 January 2008 : 21:53:19
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| All good points. I think, for simplicity's sake, I will stick with leaving the user's info in the database. Thanks for the opinions. I'm hoping to have the MOD ready for testing sometime tomorrow.< |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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JJenson
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - 09 February 2008 : 14:16:50
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muzishun did you ever get this working? I have one forum I want this for on a site for an HOA that can give opinions without people knowing who they are.
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
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Posted - 09 February 2008 : 21:06:28
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| I did indeed. Here is the link. I went with the option to keep the member's information in the database, but without physically downloading the DB, there is no way to view user information for posts in this forum.< |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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Quick opinion question
Well, I'm off to sleep now 
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