UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Mod who does not show up as Mod?

Hi,

Is there any way to make my Moderators indistinguisable from normal users? I.e. they have Mod rights, but are represented as normal users (same color, no flag, called User instead of Moderator, etc)

Sanuk!

Not easily - you'd have to fool with the User "Status" field - and that's used by just about every script in threads. Would probably be a deep modification.

Actually if it's just a particular user - one way to trick people, rather than changing their user status would be to add some code in showflat/showthreaded where it does the bit for the moderator flag

if ($user['U_Number'] == xxxx) {
$postrow[$i]['UserStatus'] = "";
}

Which will clear out the flag that wsa defined for them as a moderator. You could do the same for name color etc.... Would still take some work, but not as much as trying to globally create a system to hide them.

Hi,

Hmmm, too bad. Was considering 'firing' all my Moderators and then 're-hiring' a bunch, but make them all anonymous. Too much problems with normal members feeling they cannot go head to head with a Mod in a discussion.

Oh well, will have to find an alternative solution then.

Sanuk!