Automatic PM to the creator when an Staff Moves/Deletes a post

First topic message reminder :

First of all, I`m sorry if this was already suggested, but I didn´t saw it.

It would be nice that, when a Staff moves/deletes a post, the post creator would recive a PM in the forum comunicating the action, for example:

"Hello [Name of the person who created the post]:

The Moderator [name of the mod wich did the action] has [moved/deleted (depending of what was done)] your post called [post title with hyperlink] from [name of the section in wich was the post in] to [new section wich was moved to]"

This would be if the post gets moved, but, if post gets deleted, simply gets the advice of it, something like:

Hello [Name of the person who created the post]:

"The Moderator [name of the mod wich did the action] has deleted your post. You can PM him/her to ask the reason of this"

Yes, I know some of you will say that users can go to their profile and look for your recently done post to see if a post was deleted or moved, but some people don´t do it, trust me, and very often makes a new post asking things like:

"Where is my post?"

And Staff have to answer it saying that it have been moved, deleted...etc...

Hello!

@Daemon thank you really much for your effort and for sharing the code with us, but this is not exactly what I am suggesting.

Let me explain it:

I don´t want to show the message in the own post....but send a private (automatted) message to the post creator, so he/she will be notified at the moment when a Staff moves/deletes his/her post.

Your idea is good, but the aim of this suggestion is to solve the problem of people not finding his created topic and asking things like "where has my post gone?"

By this way, the user would be privatedly notified of the change, and it would be a faster method, and, of course, it would be less work to the Staff because they will not have to be answering questions about "where my post has gone?"

But, anyways, thank you really much for share your code, is fantastic, I really like it !!

BUMP

Code:

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
if(_userdata.user_level > 0) {
  if(window.location.href.search('/t') >= 0) {
  jQuery('a[href*="mode=editpost"]').click(function() {
            var jUser = jQuery(this).parents('.post').find('.username, .author a').text();
            var jLink = jQuery(this).parents('.post').find('.posthead a, .topic-title a').attr('href');
            if(jUser != _userdata.username) {
                sessionStorage.setItem("member_post_edited", jUser);
                sessionStorage.setItem("link_to_post", jLink);
            }
  });
  }
  if(window.location.href.search('mode=editpost') >= 0) {
  var x = sessionStorage.getItem('member_post_edited');
  var y = sessionStorage.getItem('link_to_post');
  if(x && y) {
    jQuery('input[name="post"]').click(function(d) {
      d.preventDefault();
      jQuery.post('/post?p=' + jQuery('input[name="p"]').val() + '&mode=editpost', {
                  'message': jQuery('textarea').sceditor('instance').val(),
                  'post': '1',
                  'attach_sig': '1'
      }).done(function(e) {
              var href = jQuery(e).find('a[href^="/viewtopic"]').attr('href');
              jQuery.post('/privmsg', {
                          'mode': 'post',
                          'post': '1',
                          'folder': 'inbox',
                          'username': x,
                          'subject': 'Your post has been edited by a staff member',
                          'message': '[b]Link to the edited post:[/b] ' + window.location.protocol + '//' + window.location.host + y + ''
              }).done(function() {
                      alert("The member was successfully notified");
                      sessionStorage.removeItem('member_post_edited');
                      sessionStorage.removeItem('link_to_post');
                      location.href = href;
              }).fail(function() {
                      alert("An error occurred while trying to send a notification");
                      location.href = href;
              });
      }).fail(function() {
              alert("An error occurred while trying to edit post. Try again");
      });
    });
  }
  }
}
});

This code serves to notify a member when his post is edited by a staff member.
You can modify it...
PunBB and PhpBB3


Enjoy!

I like this idea! Voted yes!