UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 Mod Questions Hack to prevent DIFFERENT double/triple posts?

Just a simple question really...

Is there a hack that would prevent a user from replying in the same topic two or three times in a row before anyone else manages to reply? I know of a couple hacks that prevent IDENTICAL double posts, but that's not our main problem. We have a bunch of stupid newbies on the boards that don't read our rules about no double posts and we have to intervene constantly.

So... Does anyone know of a hack that could do this?

I don't think there are any existing hacks but try this out. This will not let anyone reply if they are already the last to reply to a thread. Make a backup of postings.cgi before trying this of course! Let me know if how it goes.

FIND in postings.cgi:
$lastpost = $revreplier[0];
@lastpost = split(/||/, $lastpost);

ADD right AFTER it:
if ($UserName eq "$lastpost[2]") {
&StandardHTML("You cannot reply to this thread again until someone else does.");
exit;
}

There is the "No DUBBEL posts" hack in the database. It prevents users from posting after there User Name has posted. Use that.

Thanks for the replies.

treszoks, I'm going to try it right away. I'll let you know.

Lord Dexter, the three or four hacks such as that that are linked to in the database have no download links and the discussion thread links posted are dead. I mailed the people running this board about it but no one replied...

Moving to Questions

treszoks, you rock. It works like a charm!
Easiest hack I've ever installed, but oh so what we needed for ages... 5 stars for ya.

Now just an additional question... Is there any (easy) way to have it allow mods/admins to reply twice in a row? It's no biggie, we don't really need it, just thinking of expanding this hack a bit further...

[ July 09, 2001 04:29 PM: Message edited by: Gladius ]

Just aiming for a couple of stars


Can I get a rating now too??? lol (This better work though)

Well I think it would have worked in normal circumstances (it did prevent everyone from posting doubles), but it didn't allow me (admin) either. But that's due to the fact that I have a bunch of other hacks installed, custom avatars & titles being among them. So where my status should normally be is a title, a
, some more text, a

, and an avatar picture... Which is a bit of a problem.
I tried inserting that whole code part into the "Admin" line, but it didn't work.

Thanks for the effort though.

Well, this $profileinfo[8] says your status is at profilefield 8. If you changed that, you could point it to the right profilefield.

Just look at your memberfile in the membersdir, and count the lines from above. Where you see the line 'administrator', that number should be put at $profileinfo[number]

But I have been rated! lol

Cheers,

CT.

Yea, I figured it out later, doh.

Thanks.

I'm glad it worked.

Hope the mods won't kill me for this...

Can any of you helpful people check out https://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=000541 please?

I'm in need of another hack and no one seems to be able to help me there.