User Lock -- GO AWAY

[Patty]

I hate this. I HATE THIS!!! I hate the fact that users can lock their own threads. In three days, I've already had two people lock down their own threads because they said, "Oh, it was a stupid movie thread," only to have heaps of people post to the threads after I unlocked them.

There should be a toggle on/off thing for this feature at the very least. I want this OFF!!! I said I was going t make an invisible button -- I didn't, and now I will. But for the love of God -- someone make this a opt-in feature. I hate it -- again HATE IT -- in its current form.

[Patty]

Dammit. I can't use a blank button -- it uses the admin lock button.

OK -- I want his mod more than more smilies now. Again, in case you missed it -- I HATE this feature.

[Big P]

Piece of piss!
All it would take is a hide feature, like:
if ($memreply == "1") {
Print <<EOT
EOT; }
else
{
echo "<a href=$cgi;lock$boardnum><img src=$imagedir/lock.gif></a>
}

Done and done. Course just have to add an admin option... Does YaBB count ticked boxes as "1" and "0" or as "on" and "off"? I'm not sure about that...  

[Patty]

Where? I'm looking at Display.php right now -- I'm a writer, not a dev god.

[Big P]

I just made that code up now! It was an example of what it would look like
I'll have to go look at the files to find exactly where the image appears for the user  

[Patty]

Well, part of it is in Display, but I can't figure out how to change it.

It starts with: if(in_array($username,$moderators) --- right?

I honestly don't know what I'm doing when it comes to this sort of thing.

Two mornings in a row I've woken up to locked threads for no good reason. I don't have flame wars on my board -- which was what was cited as being the inspiration for this new "feature" that I currently HATE.

For the moment, an invisible button is in place of the admin_lock.gif -- but that means I can't lock anything.

[Big P]

That's exactly what I was looking at!
But it looks like its going to be harder than I thought, as its linked to another function somewhere else in the script. It puts $username and $moderator in an array.
It tells the script if a moderator or starter of thread is presesnt, display the lock button!
So I think I'll have to look elsewhere in the script for

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$topicinfo[posterName]
Which basically tells the script about the thread starter and how s/he should be allowed lock the thread.. sigh  

[Patty]

I'll poke around for it, too. I do appreciate you looking into it.

[Patty]

Does anything in the Lock Thread.php affect this? I looked there first, but since I was searching for the graphic, I let it go.

[Big P]

I wouldn't of thought so,but maybe now that i think about it. But the easiest thing to do would be rmeove the image for new thread starters, which is the problem, I just cant seem to do it, I'm not sure exactly how YaBB SE does all this with the MySQL, it was so much easier with flatfile!

[Patty]

OK -- any suggestions from the peanut gallery about this? If you point me in the right direction (as in, tell me which files to edit) I'll blow stuff up myself. It's a big deal for me -- maybe not anyone else. Right now, I can't even lock a topic myself -- which is better than the alternative.

I have a neurotic community -- in the past, they've asked me to delete topics because no one replied to them yet and they felt stupid for posting them. So really, user lock is not something I want to offer -- considering that it's already been misused twice in three days for that exact same reason.

[Dave Smulders]

I think this is a better solution:

http://www.yabb.info/community/index.php?board=141;action=display;threadid=2927

[Patty]

I'd still personally want an "on/off" switch.  I think the solution described in the thread above is a bit too opaque -- at least for my group. My guys would want any thread that doesn't get replied to in 24 hours to be a candidate for closure.

But honestly -- anything that will prevent user locking would be appreciated.

[Enc0der]

YEAH!

Change it so only the admins can lock the threads!

[jthorpe]

Hey what ever happened with this?  I haven't tested my board, but I am now.  I definately do not want users to be able to lock their own thread.