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Post in the name of another user?

It seems I need to wirte a post for another user. Can I change the user ID in the database for this post to change the author?

Re: Post in the name of another user?

Reply #1

I did it with SMF and also with Elkarte, if I'm not wrong you need to change the user id and also the username
sorry for my bad english

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Reply #2

What about his post count? And mine? His should be +1 and mine -1 then.

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Reply #3

Forgot to mention, after that I ran the "Recount posts" from ACP-> Maintenance...
sorry for my bad english

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Reply #4

Another option: have the member create a placeholder post, such as "reserved", then go back and edit it. ;)  

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Reply #5

Thank you both!

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Reply #6

I just checked, the fields I edited are: id_member, poster_name and poster_email

I know many will find this useless, but I need to do this because a moderator of my forum created some step by step tutorials in MS Word and he had no time to publish them on forum. So I made the topics, then I changed the author.
Last Edit: December 18, 2017, 11:03:31 am by radu81
sorry for my bad english

 

Re: Post in the name of another user?

Reply #7

That's kind of similar to my situation.  :D