Posted by: Cloxverto
Loving it. I'd love the full script soon, This could be VERY useful. =]Excellent.
At the moment, it is able to:
- Show the posts and edits someone makes.
- Show the posts and edits made by someone who is banned (OP included) even in the same spot they posted in, as well as their username.
It is also capable of bringing back the functionality of the original modstalker (even down to the time of an edit they make). However, I will never support that functionality because of the reasons certain groups of people were using the modstalker (for evil).
Here's the fun part: What I've got is what I like to call "distributed cloud computing", just the "cloud" is not distributed, the people who use the script are.
What it does is this. When someone who is (will be) using the script 'sees' a thread page, all of the posts, posters, dates (as well as other stuff), are sent to an SQL data warehouse I made, which is where the 'Freshness' idea sort of works. There's a bandwidth issue here which is why the script will have two (sort of three) options: A low, and high bandwidth version.
However, this is also its limitation. You can't get records of posts/edits made by people which haven't been 'seen' by other people using the script.
The really good part about all of this is that you don't have to be using the script to see the posts/edits in the same way as people who are using the script. The histories of posts will be available via a web page with 'options'.
There are also some deliberate limitations, such as the script being disabled in groups; private groups are private for a reason.
Autobans are/will also be in effect too... in more ways than one.
If anyone has any suggestions I'd really like to hear them.