Disclaimer: I am fully prepared to author this myself, this is not necessarily a request for someone to write this for me.
So, in earlier versions of vBulletin, it was possible to have post reports create a thread on a particular forum when they were created. Such posts contain the content that was reported, the user's report reason, and are attributed to the user who reported the post.
In our forum, we have a handful of super moderators who are responsible for the whole board, and we collaboratively moderate by using these threads as discussion spaces. When situations are less clear cut than spam, we've found this is invaluable in attaining a consensus and providing some consistent moderation.
Now, enter vBulletin 5. We've recently started looking at a forum overhaul and an update to the latest version of the product - but, alas! Reported posts have changed a bit in this version!
I can see that reports are a custom type now, but they still contain some of the gubbins that a post does, too. What I'm trying to do, therefore, is to keep the report flag, but have it also create a forum thread for the reported content and link the moderators to that discussion space within the report flag message. I can't however see a space or a hook I can use to do this.
My questions here are thus:
So, in earlier versions of vBulletin, it was possible to have post reports create a thread on a particular forum when they were created. Such posts contain the content that was reported, the user's report reason, and are attributed to the user who reported the post.
In our forum, we have a handful of super moderators who are responsible for the whole board, and we collaboratively moderate by using these threads as discussion spaces. When situations are less clear cut than spam, we've found this is invaluable in attaining a consensus and providing some consistent moderation.
Now, enter vBulletin 5. We've recently started looking at a forum overhaul and an update to the latest version of the product - but, alas! Reported posts have changed a bit in this version!
I can see that reports are a custom type now, but they still contain some of the gubbins that a post does, too. What I'm trying to do, therefore, is to keep the report flag, but have it also create a forum thread for the reported content and link the moderators to that discussion space within the report flag message. I can't however see a space or a hook I can use to do this.
My questions here are thus:
- Has anyone done this before? Can I just buy something that does this for me?
- Failing that, is there a hook in this area I can leverage into making this work?
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