Starting a thread where members can't see other replies?

[SiLink]

A bit of a tricky one, and I'm not entirely sure it's possible. 

We'd like to be able to make a thread where members can reply and vote on an issue but not see the replies/opinions of others (Apart from staff). Is this possible? If not is there a mod which would make this possible?

[Flitterkill]

Default IPS only brings you halfway there.

There is the forum (not topic) setting to allow members to create topics only staff can see. You can also configure a poll to be private so that no one else can see how others voted (other than vote totals) - you can even configure the topic to be poll-only - no replies in the thread.

Neither of those give you what you want though. Someone would need to write a mod to make what you want happen. Seems doable to me after a few seconds thinking about it.

[SiLink]

14 hours ago, Flitterkill said:

Default IPS only brings you halfway there.

There is the forum (not topic) setting to allow members to create topics only staff can see. You can also configure a poll to be private so that no one else can see how others voted (other than vote totals) - you can even configure the topic to be poll-only - no replies in the thread.

Neither of those give you what you want though. Someone would need to write a mod to make what you want happen. Seems doable to me after a few seconds thinking about it.

Thanks, I had a feeling it wouldn't be possible without a mod. Ah well do you think such a mod would be somewhat easy to create? I haven't got much hands on experience with modding the software so I'd have to request it.

[Flitterkill]

Let me take a run at it this afternoon. I'll throw it into Kitchen Sink (see Marketplace). Pretty sure it's easy enough though may need a splash of user group tweaking afterwards.

[Flitterkill]

If you can stand setting up a forum where all the topics will be with private responses I can have this up in a few hours. If you want this ability on any topic in any forum it will take awhile longer as I will needs to add a database field and call (and install/uninstall routines)

[SiLink]

Oh wow that's very generous of you Flitterkill it would be for specific topics in a specific forum. Essentially we run a poll when a new member applies to see if everyone is comfortable letting them in but we've had issues lately with people leaking other people's posts in these polls and this seems like a confidential way for people to vote honestly without worrying about their opinions being leaked.