Advanced Flood Control

[akanevsky]

I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.

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|| Advanced Flood Control
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jun 29, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

This hack gives you a couple of advanced post flood control settings.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES


Allows you to control flood check time on a per-usergroup basis.
Optional "Dynamic Flood Control Time", using which an admin may specify an extended number of seconds for users who have posted X or more posts in Y hours.


VERSION HISTORY

1.1.0
[+] The product is now officially compatible with 3.5.x - 3.8.x.
[+] Simplified a few phrases.

1.0.1
[+] The product is now officially compatible with 3.6.
[F] Corrected a minor typo.

1.0.0
Initial Version

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[akanevsky]

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[Terminatoronly]

Nice hack and first reply with first install :D Good Work

[rasun]

Yeah finaly it?s released ;)

Like I have told you, I use your old version and there doesn?t seem to be any problems in 3.6.4. Anyway I will upgrade soon.

Thanks for the official 3.6 version :)

[projectego]

Nice one. Installed. :)

[Snake]

Thank you thank you!

[Ntfu2]

i was looking for something like this. gonna check it out later

[rasun]

Any chance to use it based on post count instead of usergroup?

I only want to enable it for users with less than 5 posts. I could create a special usergroup for this, but here an example why this isn´t optimal...
When the user has more than 5 posts and gets promoted to the other usergroup without flood check he will be able to post without limits. After posts of him get deleted and he will have 2 posts or less, he is still in the usergroup without flood check, and this is not good.
I could handle this by setting his usergroup manually back through admincp, but that´s a lot of work if you do it with each member.

So any chance to make it based on post count instead of usergroup?

[Yorixz]

A nice addon, I'm wondering if there is a chance you could make the delay on reports editable as well - currently vB still uses the email delay, even though if you decide to use the posting of reports - I'd like to change that.
Keep up the great work!

[Hornstar]

Is this still working for people on 3.6.7?

I just tried installing this, and cant see any new options in 'vbulletin options' or on the left in the admincp, or in usergroup options. so I have checked everywhere settings could be possibly added, but cant seem to find them.

Edit nvm, I was hoping that his over rided the private message flood control as well, which seems to be the reason I cant find it ^^

Hopefully you may consider this as a future update? to include private messages in the advanced flood control. thanks.

[SoftWareRevue]

I'd really like to use this as a promotion.

Example:
xx posts = xx time between posts
xxx posts = less time between posts
xxxx posts = even less time between posts

I've set up user groups with promotions based on post count. Problem is, it doesn't work as an Additional Group. It only works if the promotion moves the member to the new user group as the Primary Usergroup. I can't really have that, for numerous reasons.

Anyone have any ideas how to set this up using promotions as an additional user group? Is it possible?

[donal]

Presently only Admins and Mods are exempted from flood control. How can I include some more groups to the exemption list. I want to add my donors group to be exempted.

[jeriddian]

I have installed this mod on my board, and it seems to install fine in terms of adding the proper radio buttons in the admincp. But it does not seem to work. Whatever time limit I set my individual usergoups, they are still stuck at the global setting. It seems the global setting is overiding this mod, which of course makes no sense, but in any case it's not working at all. Any ideas or suggestions as to why? It seems that the global flood control overrides it instead of the other way around.

[nickwilliams99]

can i use this so that at peak time it only stops letting guests in??

[mmorse]

Planning for future upgrade - compatibility with 3.8? (Currently using 3.6 so apologies if some of this was already built-in to later versions.)

[Stifmeister2]

Planning for future upgrade - compatibility with 3.8? (Currently using 3.6 so apologies if some of this was already built-in to later versions.)
Works fine in my 3.8.1. ;)

[Mont]

Thanks for a great add on. To clarify the install a bit, the file in the uploads folder has to be manually FTP'd into the listed folder of your forums and then you use the hook system to install the mod. It works great and has solved a lot of problems with abusive users. They get frustrated and go somewhere else.

[oulman]

Any way to set this option for Moderators and Higher rank holders?