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muzishun
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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)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com)
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muzishun
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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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