How to hide usernames for guests and bots

gregman

2007-12-06, 13:50 #1

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Subject: How to hide usernames for guests and bots

Hi,

is it possible to let unb show usernames of the posts only to logged in people? Guests and bots shall only see a "***" or whatever instead of the username.

Thx
Greg

Besides: I'm sure, it's possible. What i really mean is "how".

jense 2007-12-06, 14:47 #2

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Quote by gregman:
is it possible to let unb show usernames of the posts only to logged in people?

No. - Since the displayed usernames are aliases, why should it be?

BTW, your question seems to be somehow related to Allow anonymous posting for members.

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jense 2007-12-06, 14:57 #3

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Quote by jense:
Quote by gregman:
is it possible to let unb show usernames of the posts only to logged in people?

No.

Er, say: not directly. You can edit post.html and mask the user name depending on the login status - or something that indicates it...

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Yves (Administrator) 2007-12-06, 16:10 #4

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That was my idea, too. Something like this should help, in post.html:

{if $LoginUserID}{$post.authorName}{else}***{endif}

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gregman

2007-12-06, 17:19 #5

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Thx for the code, I'll try it!

Due to the fact that I encourage the users of my forum to use their real names (because we also communicate in "real"), I was asked to hide the usernames for guests or bots.

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jense 2007-12-06, 17:55 #6

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Due to the fact that I encourage the users of my forum to use their real names (because we also communicate in "real"), I was asked to hide the usernames for guests or bots.

Well, then you should consider to entirely hide the forum to guests. The names might appear in quotes, texts, whatever...

Off Topic:
Hm, in general, it is not a good sign if text that is publically available should not be related to its author, is it?!

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2007-12-09, 13:14 #7

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Quote by jense on 2007-12-06, 17:55:
Well, then you should consider to entirely hide the forum to guests. The names might appear in quotes, texts, whatever...

In deed, but hiding the hole forum is not practicable for me, because most of the topics in the forum are interesting for guests as well and I don't want to force a registration.

Quote by jense on 2007-12-06, 17:55:
Off Topic:
Hm, in general, it is not a good sign if text that is publically available should not be related to its author, is it?!

In my case the information surely is related to the author: Therefore it's more a question of handling datas respectfully.

Nevertheless: The code works very well. But in order to hide all the user information I had to add

{if $LoginUserID}{$t.startUser}{else}*****{endif}

in treadlist.html as well.