Allow admin to post questions under faked accounts

If I were to write something that does this (since I need it myself) where is the best place to put the code?

I'd like for it to be contributed back into the mainline - if we agree the feature would be a useful part of askbot.

This is a very useful feature - like in the video you've linked - the input probably is good to place in the "ask", "answer" and maybe "comment" form. It will be harder to implement this feature for the comments, easier to start with questions and answers. I think at the minimum the "post as" field must have an autocompleter to select the user.

User actions are made by calling functions like User.post_question() so in that case - instead of request.user user will have to be pulled out of the database.

Thanks for the pointers @Evgeny. Will start small (Questions) and build from there.

Why is it necessary to hack the code, rather than simply creating multiple users? There might be a workaround which makes it easier to switch between multiple existing users?

Yes this a good addition to get initial traction for any new-forum.

@Evgeny I like what you've done with the code. Thumbs up

any updates on the option of adding a photo also after creating fake ids?

It should be available for admins. :) for a lot of good reasons - http://askbot.org/en/question/8035/allow-admin-to-post-questions-under-faked-accounts/?answer=8527#post-id-8527@Jtrain@Evgeny

@Jtrain - thanks and thanks to you again. @pajju the avatar will wait until we add a "switch accounts" feature is implemented for the admins so that you could do everything else under faked accounts. I don't want to complicate the UI too much.

yes, the admin switching is a great idea! ;)