MyBB Moderation
I’ve also been working on MyBB recently and I’ve added a significant feature to MyBB 1.2 a few days ago, which I’ll let you people guess what it is. The feature was not requested due to popularity (I don’t think many people had suggested it on the MyBB Community Forums), but within the staff team there were some who supported this feature. I’ll start off with this clue and add more hints later if requested:
Probably a couple of months ago, I converted most of the stuff in moderation.php into a class. This will allow plugins and other features within MyBB to easily call these methods to moderate threads and posts. An example:
require MYBB_ROOT."inc/class_moderation.php"; $moderation = new Moderation; $moderation->close_threads(array(1, 3, 45));
Obviously from the description above, this new feature has something to do with the moderation system…
June 15th, 2006 at 9:40 pm
I guess, being a part of staff, I can’t participate?
June 15th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
You can help give hints
June 15th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
I’ll take a stab at it…. The new feature allows you to close all threads by a specified user or users at once.
June 16th, 2006 at 4:33 am
I’ve shifted bandwidth to you, I could help it with your mesmerising stare.
As for the feature, it may look like that you can close specific threads all at once.
June 16th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Bobby, you can already do that with inline moderation
June 16th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
… maby its improved. LOL
June 17th, 2006 at 7:45 am
No, that’s not it
It’s something really nice… and… and… I can’t think of a hint that doesn’t give it away completely… 
June 17th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
I agree, it’s hard to come up with clues hehe.
June 17th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Can I buy a vowel?
June 17th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Well the other problem is that we haven’t decided on the official name for it yet…
But anyway the name’s not important, but the concept is 
June 18th, 2006 at 4:36 am
Oooo!
Can I have a guess? Please?
I haven’t actually tried it yet - I’ll probably get around to that later tonight when I’m testing some other new changes.
June 18th, 2006 at 5:22 am
Your really going to have to give us a clue…
Is it about deleting something?
Chris what do you think it is? LOL
June 18th, 2006 at 5:49 am
Oh, I know what it is - Dennis double checked with me before he began implementing it.
I must say, the options it gives you are pretty damn extensive.
June 18th, 2006 at 9:55 am
Yeah I usually just slip the small stuff in without asking (or ask after the commit)
Chris probably hates me for that 
June 18th, 2006 at 9:57 am
It sure is quite nice, with plenty of options for everything you need… And that’s all I’ll say about it, I think…
June 18th, 2006 at 9:59 am
I was going to add some more options for the “copy thread” portion — I forgot when I first made it
Otherwise I’d agree the options are quite extensive.
June 18th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
Yeh sure, if your gonna actually pay me. You can pay me via PayPal, Check, Money, or VISA.
But yeh, the options it impliments are very nice, and allow for lots more customizability in the Moderation type. When it was first implimented I was like “huh”, because I didn’t know what it did, but after playing around with it a little bit I was able to figure it out. And I was quite pleased.
Hmm…. I wish you can edit replies. Anyway, heres a little tip if you ever get on the MyBB team. Just do the commit without asking, and then ask, but make sure the feature is good or else Chris will remove it. Also know what your implimenting because if you just want to impliment a random feature that you just “like” chris will fly all the way to your home and strap you up to the wall and beat you for hours at a time. (Believe me, personal experience)!
June 18th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Tikitiki you essentially gave it away
June 19th, 2006 at 3:47 am
Ha, yeah right… That’s so unfair, mods get to view the beta, whereas translators still dont have access.
Oh well, ill have to wait, im over guessing.
June 19th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
It’s not beta yet, it’s still under development, I think… at least, it isn’t quite beta quality yet
June 20th, 2006 at 1:02 am
.. development beta …
June 21st, 2006 at 3:27 pm
OMG! Invitations are out!!!
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:52 pm
1.2 Beta invitaions have been sent out yes. Isn’t this so exciting?
June 24th, 2006 at 12:10 am
YES!!!!!
July 2nd, 2006 at 10:17 pm
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