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Post Groan Hack 3.3

About this hack:
This hack was requested by users who like my "Post Thank You Hack". Both can run together on the same forum.

This hack adds a "groan" button to all posts. Any user can "groan" at a post. This will reduce the amount of "junk" posts your forum gets.

Features:

• Uses vBulletin easy Product installer/updater/uninstaller
• Uses AJAX technology so your users don't have to refresh when they groan at a post.
• Places an easy to use button next to the edit button
• Separate looks for postbit and postbit_legacy
• Places all Groans into one small box
• Uses only ONE query every time you view a showthread page!
• Users can't groan twice
• Guests don't see 'groan' button
• Counts how many groans a user gives
• Counts how many groans a post gets
• Shows how many groans a user gave in every post of his
• Shows how many groans a user gave in profile
• Shows how many groans a user got
• Shows info in profile
• Search for a users groaned at posts
• Search for all groaned at posts
• Administrator can remove all Groans from a single post
• Users can remove their own Groans (Option to turn it off)
• Turn on and off hack totally
• Turn on and off hack for only some forums
• Option to turn off hack view of date all forums
• Option to integrate hack with Post Thanks Hack
• Ban Usergroups
• Ban Users
• Uses Phrases
• Cache Templates

Installation information on hack:

• Files edited: 0
• Templates edited: 0
• Files to upload: 7
• Time to install: 1 minute max

Updates:

Version 2.0 (10/26/06):

• Release of this hack for vBulletin version 3.6
• AJAX disabled if you have AJAX disabled on your forum.
• Re-did the search for groaned posts.
• Optimized AJAX code to make AJAX work faster
• rel="nofollow" added to all links
• added to showpost
• Better integration with Post Thanks Hack.

Version 3.0 (04/06/07):

• Totally re-wrote hack to have all the features Post Thank You Hack has. Please redo all template edits.

Version 3.1 (05/14/07):

• No more template edits You do not have to make any template edits to run this hack.
• better cache of templates
• vBulletin 3.6.6 and up is needed to run this version
• Fixed extra queries from running if you had no thanks on a page.
• Fixed deleting all of a users thanks.
• A few more tweaks here and there.

Version 3.2 (05/21/07):

• Fixed a template caching bug.
• Fixed an error that would come up if you did not have Post Thanks installed. Even if you do, there was a big bug in checking if a user gave a groan or not.
• No file edits. Just upload the product XML.

Version 3.3 (07/30/07):

• Moved post thanks stats in postbit from hook postbit_userinfo_right to hook postbit_userinfo_right_after_posts. (for vb 3.6.8 and <3.6.6)
• Released for all versions of vb 3.6.x

Pictures:

1. Showing the 'groan' button and stats in Postbit
2. Showing post after 'groan' (user view)
3. Showing post after 'groan' with legacy posts (admin view)
4. Stats in members profile
5. Hacks settings

I saw it first :)

Reserved

Mod nice ..... *installed* :)

installed. Thanks :)

iNsTaLlEd. Thanks

you know what would be awesome? an option for both thanks and groan hacks to automatically increase/decrease user's reputation if his post/thread was thanked/groaned. what do you think?

Thanks a lot. I'll check this out soon.

Can anyone make a german Button ?

I didn't add rep to the hack yet. I hope to eventually.

I haven't installed either this or the thanks hack on my board because its small and I don't think it would get much use.

But they both appear to be great hacks from the screenshots.

Now that you have both, in future versions, have you thought about combining them into one hack and make an option to use one or both. Since it seems they do very similar things.

If combined with a way to alter reputation, that would be a killer hack.

They work together now that if a user thanks or groans a post, they can't do the other to the post also. I just never did the rep thing yet in the groan hack. I'll try to get it in soon. You should click 'install' here so you'll get an email when I release the new version.

installed. Thanks :)

Nice. Thank you! :D

can same person give thanks and groan to same post?

In the post groan options there is an option integrate both hacks so one user can't do back to the same post.

I got this requested on my site only the other day, but they wanted to call it the sucks button lol, so I said no to that idea, however now that you have called it the groan button, and maybe I'll only let certain usergroups use it, I think it is a fantastic idea.

Well done.

I think what he meant was, scrap this thread and the thanks thread, and combine them into one hack.

and as an option in the admincp, you have enable/disable thanks .... enable/disable groan etc. so that way, updating will be a lot easier.

If you would do this, it would be ideal for most people I feel.

It would be a lot of extra plug-in code for users who only want post thanks hack. Post Thanks Hack is a lot more popular and I dont want them to be bothered with a lot more code.

You can always edit the button and phrases so it can be come the shucks hack.

Very nice! Would be even better with an exemption feature so you can add usergroups that can't be groaned at - eg, admins.

Interesting idea.

Agreed. I dont want to be groaned at lol.

thanks for this

I was thinking about this groan hack as a collaborative moderation tool

1. After x-groans post will be hidden (only "show" link will replace the post).
or
2. post will be deleted (pretty hard option)
or
3. user will get PM to auto-censore-delete his post, or he might just check his groaned-posts and do it voluntarily (I do not have big expectations here)

BUT look what a GREAT addition was made to this add-on here:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...6&postcount=14
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Abe1, any chance to turn this add-on to collaborative-moderation tool?
It will do huge work for any big forum .-)

Hello!

I've been toying with this and your thank you to make it fit my board a bit more. I don't want to get people mad at each other for a groan, however I think it's a nice tool if it could be done without the person knowing who groaned.

Anyway my question. Do you know how I would just put that there are X amount of groans for a post in the postbit instead of Name (date)? I didn't put it in the postbit as of right now so that they can't see who did it. LOL But it'd be nice for those posts you'd like to groan on without really getting involved. :)

Thanks!

i like this idea

Done for Post thanks but not for post groan.

Thanks Abe. I installed it here www.mobmototb.com
The fact that I don't have buttons for my style is disappointing.
Any ideas?

Perhaps something like this ? Very nice hack by the way.

Can you please add a nofollow Tag at Post Thank You ? Even the Buttons are not visible for Guests the Crawler are allways attempting to use them. Traffic that makes no sin.

Hello ,

is this option available in this hack ,

Set how many reputaion a user should get if he gets thanked. Set to '0' to disable.

Like the Post Thanks ,

Regards

good question
i wanna know about it too
please reply this

We call ours "kicks"...since people were always *kicking* each other when something silly was said. We use a kicking smilie. Just edit your phrases (there are a few!) from groan(s) to whatever you want.

I thought I added them. Are you sure?

What typo?

Instead of keeping a separate groan count, can this be made to subtract from a users "thank you" count? Even the ability for people to have negative points.

Maybe a donation would help achieve this? ;)

first of all, this is a gr8 hack like the post thanks hack. few days ago i added this on my forum. hoped it'll reduce junk/off topic posts. but what ppls were doing is for example, If i give a groan to someone, that users finding one of my older post & give groan. lol kinda like fight. so i was forced to disable it.

So Abe1, if you add these 2 options:

1. Will need reason (like reputation) to give a groan
2. cant give groan if the post if X (X = admin set) days older.

then it'll be perfect & users wont be able to abuse it.

thanks

I dont know about if I would add a reason. Just too much work on the user's part to use the hack.

As for the datys cut off, I'll put it on the list.

require reason can be ON/OFF from admincp. so its up to forum admins, if they want make it easy for the user end, but i think it should a must have option to stop abuse this hack.

thanks..

as i understood groan hack dont decrease repputation. does it?
maybe it will be better that it will?
and one more moment?
is it possible to do - that when user push thanx or groan button reputation increased or decreased in accordance with user's power of reputation? not fixed points of reputation...

Hey please could you think about intergrating a rep attatchment to this

You should add a reputation modifier for a groan, just like a thank. A thank you should give reputation, while a groan should lower it. And I agree on requiring a reason.

On my list already.

So we may hope that it will be? =)

hey nice hack combination ....

but just a question;

i want it to show it only on the first post, like the option on the thank button

any ideas how?
thank you in advanced!!

i click install!!!!

Once you include the reputation part for this hack, I'll definately install both of them. I hope to scrap the other reputation stuff, and just use Thank/Groan as the foundation for the entire reputation on my forum. The original reputation system is just too complicated for users to bother with, but this is the ideal solution, so hopefully you'll have it ready in not too long. If all works out, be sure to expect a donation (can't promise anything too big though) coming your way :)

I have one Groan that is not longer existing. How can i update the Groancache`?

Anybody out there ?

I made two "Groan" button.

This Mod unusable :

1. If a User is on the Groan Blacklist he creates a Gron and a Thanks if Thanks-Hacks is installed. Even if the Compatibility is activated in the AdminCP.

2. The Thanks Hack has a Cacherefresh at AdminCP - the Groan Hack has not.

3. You allways have to refresh the Browser before a Groan is shown after clicking the Button.

4. Sometimes there are Database Errors - not everytime but sometimes if Bug 1.) is happening.

All these thinks happens since Months and it seems there will be no Update ?

One Suggestion :

It was nice if only Users with X Posts can use the Button. There are to much new Users that use the Button without any Realreasons.

Just about all will be fixed in the coming days. I'm almost finished working on Post Thank You Hack 6.0, with a tun of new features and quicker speed. I will release the groan hack with all the same features either the same time or with-in a few days.

Abe1, please, could I ask you to post groan button without word "Groan", I would like to translate it to russian. Thanks!

Sorry, I dont do graphics.

Post Groan Version 3.0 RC1 released Here.


I hope this is just a quick test of the totally re-written Post Groan hack. It now has all the features that Post Thank You hack has.

Please make sure you do all the template edits correctly.

Awesome so this is just about the final release? The instructions would be pretty easy for someone to follow if they just installed the thank you hack. Just have them place the edits after each edit for the thank you hack... Keep up the good work.

How's this? If I have the wrong word tell me and I'll change it.

Thanks a lot for upgrade.

A little question: since we have New ACP options, why not get rid of the old one?
I mean, it still stay in the "vbulletin options".

I can't remove it from there. It is officially there and I only made just a link to it.

OK, I see. Thank you.

Anyone that may have made some adjustments in their groan templates, like I did to reduce the font size, remember you'll have to revert that template and make your change again or the groaned from member names won't show up in the table.

Found an error Abe, on line 334 of post_groan_admin.php
it says delete_groans($postinfo, $userid);
while on functions_post_groan.php (includes folder) on line 359 it says function delete_groan($postinfo, $userid)

as you can see, the second one is missing an s, therefor the mass delete groan function doesn't work ^^

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After some more testing, I think that the post_groan_admin.php is the one with the extra s

Does anyone know if this hack also works for 3.5? I know there is a Post Groan Hack for 3.5 but it hasn't been updated for a long time so I bet a lot of features won't be included in that one or am I wrong?

Do we need to remove the template edits we've made?

If you would check the email sent out, I said yes.

BUG at 3.1:

The Button appears at the wrong direction after the Quickreply Button!

Not a bug.

vB placed the '$template_hook[postbit_controls]' there. You can move it right under '<!-- controls -->' if you'd like.

Great mod! Would live an option to be able to exclude certain user groups - for example to not allow users to groan at moderators or admins...:cool:

Hi Abe1, how can i make the groan button show up after the thank you button?

I dont have that option now?

Change the order that the plugins run.

I installed this mod on 3.6.7 PL 1 today and I get this error when posting a new post:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: can_thank_this_post() in /home/sapsuper/public_html/forums/includes/class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 11

Is the Post Thank You Hack mod a pre-req?

Do you have set to integrate this hack with it?

No sir, I had never heard of the Thank You Post mod until I got this error.

Look in the setting for this hack. Make sure the last one is set to 'no'.

Seemed to install OK... can change settings in AdminCP.

I get the following error message when I try and click on ANY Post/Thread to see if I can "groan"


Fatal error: Call to undefined function: can_thank_this_post() in /home/wclangam/public_html/Forums/includes/class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 158


Any ideas?

I have it turned off at the moment... and all is well again


Brit

Yes, I disabled it as well and everything is OK for now. But I really would like to use it. And the last setting - Integrate this hack with Post Thanks Hack? - has always been set to No.

Disable the option integrate with Post Thanks Hack.

I did this as stated previously, and it did not resolve the issue. So there is no point in asking madbrit to do the same.

I did check the AdminCp option...just to make sure. It is turned off - same as Josie.

I would look at line 296 myself... but counting lines isnt always exact with my Cpanel tools my server guys give me.

Any further thoughts would be greatly appreciated


Cheers

Brit

Evrsoft counts them for me but you can never be sure it that line count includes comments, unexpanded includes, etc. But if it helps, line 296 is the line after the "//execute hook" line:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

I Guess I could try and just install the Thank you hack... but for a few reasons wasnt so interested in this feature

Hope to solve it without installing the thank you


Brit

I'm not interested in adding the Thank You hack either, and hope that won't become a pre-requisite.

Thanks for Update


YmY

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Abe1, very nice Mod.

I think it can replace the reputation button, since most reputation comments are useless and there is no a real need to keep them.

Could you please add the setting, so that reputation points that a user receives being thanked/groaned will be determined by reputation power of thanker/groaner? Now it is determining by fixed constant in admin control panel, but it will be nice if it will act just like the original reputation button works ("thanks" add an amount equal to reputation power of thanker, "groan" subtracts amount equal to 1/2 of reputation power of groaner).

Thus we can get rid of reputation button and stay with "thanks/groan".

Getting this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: can_thank_this_post() in /hsphere/local/home/toddro19/bamauniverse.com/forums/includes/class_postbit.php(296) : eval()'d code on line 166

Dont have TY hack installed

Well, at least it seems to be consistent.

I'll look into it.

Bug in the post_groan_member_info template:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

It should be:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Thanks. Fixed for next version.

I keep getting doubles on each posts (accumilative) -every post gets one more groan line, and one more groan button

I just upgraded to 3.67

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...gs71/groan.gif

This also happens with the "thank you" hack



UPDATE:

3.67 need this plugin fix
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...69#attachments

http://www.yoursitename.com/forum/se...find_all_groan

dosnt work on latest Post Groan Hack.

what will be the code now for to find all groans?

change search.php to post_groan.php

post_groan.php?do=findallgroans is working ;)

Hello Abbi, Nice post you added man.
but seem it's giving me error.
check out this error



Thanks: 1
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Rep Power: 0
sh3tan is on a distinguished road
Groans: 0
Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts
Groans: 0
Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts
Groans: 0
Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts
Groans: 0
Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts

Well, whatever user post a reply , it add more words with post, what's solution for that ?

Go to my post thanks hack and download the fix file for this error.