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Remove the hidden status option from your board
I don"t understand why this option is allowed on a forum board and i wanted to remove it. I searched on the phpbb.com forum and found this.
| Marshalrusty Wrote: : |
There are two steps.
1) Remove the "hide" option
Open yoursite/themes/your theme/forums/profile_add_body.tpl
Find and remove:
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| <tr> <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_HIDE_USER}:</span></td> <td class="row2"> <input type="radio" name="hideonline" value="1" {HIDE_USER_YES} /> <span class="gen">{L_YES}</span> <input type="radio" name="hideonline" value="0" {HIDE_USER_NO} /> <span class="gen">{L_NO}</span></td> </tr> |
2) Unhide all the user who have chosen to be hidden
Use phpMyAdmin to run the following query
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| UPDATE nuke_users SET user_allow_viewonline=1 |
Source:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=349220&highlight=hidden
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I don"t understand why this option is allowed on a forum board |
There are many reasons why someone might want to be "hidden" on a forum. I am hidden here..... for reasons I won't divulge... but I can't see the problem of users wishing to hide their status.
Whats the big deal about it? If you are an admin of the board / site you still get to see them online even if they are "hidden"
because i find it unnecassary to have user browsing the forum in a hidden status. If they feel uncomfortable browsing the forum when it is seen they are there then something is not a 100% ok. Its not fair to the other users.
You talk about many reasson but you mention none...........
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If they feel uncomfortable browsing the forum when it is seen they are there then something is not a 100% ok |
Not necessarily the case... maybe they just don't want to be bothered / suddenly bombarded by PM's or whatever when it is seen thay are online - maybe they want to browse the Forum for a couple of minutes and then not get drawn into conversations because someone has seen that they are online? It is not always suspect that the hidden status is there.....
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If you are an admin of the board / site you still get to see them online even if they are "hidden" |
If you take this option away from them - which when it comes down to it is their right to privacy then it MAY stop people visiting... up to you though - just personally don't see why it is such an issue.
Thx that it is up to me dirk.
I'm totally lost what you want to add to this topic with your post. If people share your opinion they wont apply the change. If they would like to get ride of the hidden status they will. Shall we leave that up to them too
