An alternative to banning: Miserable Users

[Zzed]

This hack is an alternative to banning a user. As the name suggests a user who
gets hit with this hack will become truly miserable while trying to access
your board.

So here is what really happens to a miserable user:

- There is a random 60-120 second delay each time they click on a link.
- 90% of times they have no search engine acccess.
- 75% of the times they get the server too busy error.

If they don't get the server too busy error:
- 50% of the times they may get a blank page
- 30% of the times they may get forwarded to the forum main page
- 20% of the time they may be able to see the page they asked for.

after doing all the math in actuality they have only a 5% chance of seeing the
page they clicked on. What kills them is the time they have to wait before
anything happens.

I actually once tracked a miserable user and watched him suffer for 2 whole
hours before he was able to make a simple post.

This hack is considered one of the most sadistic hacks on my board. :D

The hack allows you to make your user miserable via the admin CP. It also
allows you to search for all miserable users through the admin CP as well.

Also in showthread.php, it appends a red status that is only visibly to admins
and mods stating that a user is miserable.


Tables affected by this hack: user

Files affected by this hack: global.php, showthread.php, admin/user.php

[Kars10]

Lol, cool hack!!
Install it later on... ;)
thanks man!!

[Mephisteus]

I'm going to install this one :) Sadistic hack, but fun :)

BTW, will this also affect the admincp? Cause if it does I won't test it :P

[Kevorkian]

yes entry today i'll install it ^____^ lol

[Zzed]

Originally posted by DarkSSJ3
I'm going to install this one :) Sadistic hack, but fun :)

BTW, will this also affect the admincp? Cause if it does I won't test it :P

This hack is set/reset via the admin CP. It does add a couple of things to it.

[Erwin]

LOL! Good idea.

[afterlab]

lol.. I like this. Good idea and good creation, thanks for sharing!

[Dean C]

Excellent idea!

I love it!

- miSt

[Boofo]

Zzed, nice idea. ;)

Is there any way to have the user show up as miserable in the online.php?

[DWZ]

lol, i started to feel sorry for the users banned like this when i read this thread...

[JulianD]

hhaahah thanks... I'm going to start using it right now on my forums!!!

[MetroSports82]

Zzed, great idea. thanks! :D

[Boofo]

Zzed, I was looking at you code and I am confused about something. What is the $post[stunned] in this line and what does it do? That is the only place in the code I see that. ;)

if(($post[miserable] == 1) || ($post[stunned] & 4)){

[Craigr]

Great idea, great hack.

Craig

[Sweet Cheeks]

So awesome, thanks a bunch :banana:

[Zzed]

Originally posted by Boofo
Zzed, I was looking at you code and I am confused about something. What is the $post[stunned] in this line and what does it do? That is the only place in the code I see that. ;)

if(($post[miserable] == 1) || ($post[stunned] & 4)){

Sorry Boofo, That was a small leftover from another hack that I combined with the misery hack. It should not cause any problems since $post[stunned] will be 0 by default. ;)

[Nzo]

Excellent !! I'm sure to install it in near future !!

Thx for sharing

[Sweet Cheeks]

I installed it and it works Awesome ROFL :p It took forever just to log in LMAO

[Overgrow]

Funniest...hack...ever!

[Zzed]

Thank you for all your kind words everyone. :)

[Xyphen]

awesome, really nice to piss the ppl off, lol, thnx for sharing!

[Moyses]

Super Duper nice Hack! ^___~

[Crazy Pete]

Does this not like GZIP compression or something? I tested it out, and while it seemed to work I didn't get any pages, just garbled nonsense the whole time.

[Kars10]

Ok have installed this bad boy and it works like a charm!! One of the coolest way to ban someone!! :D
Ive tested it with the account of my girlfriend and gave it up after 5 min. of loading-loading-error-loading-loading....

* Kars10 klicks install!!

[Boofo]

Originally posted by Zzed


Sorry Boofo, That was a small leftover from another hack that I combined with the misery hack. It should not cause any problems since $post[stunned] will be 0 by default. ;)

LOL We've all done things like that a time or two. If you write hacks, it happens. ;)

Any way to be able to set this in the usergroups, too, as well as by individual users?

I gave this a try and gave up trying to login to my board. It definitely works. ;)

[partang2]

This is BAD!!! Love it!!

*Clicks Install*

[mistyl]

Thank you for this hack! It is working great!!

[Gaffer]

damn this hack is slack...

i might install it when i have some time

[Merjawy]

This hack is bad.. reall bad.. no man this is really bad.. I love it :)

installing it today

[Zzed]

Thank you all for your kind words. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

[Link14716]

This is brutally mean and sadistic. I mean, who in there right minds would come up with something like this. I love it. :D

* Link14716 installs.

[Zzed]

Originally posted by Link14716
This is brutally mean and sadistic. I mean, who in there right minds would come up with something like this. I love it. :D

* Link14716 installs.

You talkin' to me? :D

Thank you for your kind words. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

[ManagerJosh]

Talk about your torture! I'm laughing already. I'm gonna install as soon as vBulletin 2.3.0 is declared stable :D

[midnightz]

This is great, I might just unban a few users to watch.

This is great with pizza and beer :)

hehe

midz

[Zzed]

Originally posted by midnightz
This is great, I might just unban a few users to watch.

This is great with pizza and beer :)

hehe

midz

LOL :D Pizza beer... :D

If you want a better way to track them, check out this hack: Track 1 user (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37129) ;)

[kushtiUK]

Getting this error - any advise?

Parse error: parse error in /home/bulldog/public_html/forum/global.php on line 428

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbsetcookie() in /home/bulldog/public_html/forum/member.php on line 34

[kushtiUK]

Originally posted by kushtiUK
Getting this error - any advise?

Parse error: parse error in /home/bulldog/public_html/forum/global.php on line 428

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbsetcookie() in /home/bulldog/public_html/forum/member.php on line 34

Forget it - silly old me forgot a "}"

opps..doh!

[wolfman]

Oh man I will love having this one. Its almost like being able to get revenge and they wont think you are doing it on purpose >:) I will install this one, as soon as I get a couple of other things fixed.

Gonna click install anyway.

[-Sidekick-]

The maker of this must really hate someone...

[ZiRu$]

Wow...what a great idea. I'm not even gonna tell the banned users. This will be dope!!!!

I'll install later!!!

[Tigga]

Great idea Zzed! There are a few people on my site that I can't really ban because of (for lack of a better term) political reasons. At least with this I can make their lives a little more *miserable* though. :D

[ITALY!]

wow, great hack :D
wow :D

[Vile]

Excellent idea.

Thanks for sharing this great hack :)

@Zzed:

Would it be possible to make it so Moderators can use this option, or can they already do so?

[Zzed]

Thank you again for all your kind replies. I almost fell off my chair laughing from some of the replies. :D

-Sidekick-, This hack was inspired by hate. :D

Vile, Yes there is. I have yet another unpublished hack that allows moderators to ban users. ;)

[Talisman]

Way cool. This will come in handy.

[Ghostsuit]

I'm going to love installing this one ;)

[Areku]

Far Far better than banning!!!

I'll install!!

[Zzed]

Originally posted by maoz440
Sweet hack :D I now just have to get access to mysql's prompt, my server guys guard it closely :rolleyes: Also - is there a way to hide the fact that a user is suffering from this torture from my moderators? I have a couple people I'd like to implement this on without my moderators knowing it (politics :rolleyes: ).

Thanks for the hack!

Change this:

$onlinestat = "";
if(($post[miserable] == 1) || ($post[stunned] & 4)){
if(($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 5) or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 6) or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 7)) {
$onlinestat = "$onlinestat<br><font color=\"red\"><b>Miserable User</b></font>";
}
}


To This:

$onlinestat = "";
if(($post[miserable] == 1) || ($post[stunned] & 4)){
if($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 6) {
$onlinestat = "$onlinestat<br><font color=\"red\"><b>Miserable User</b></font>";
}
}


And it will be visible only to the admins. ;)

[drumsy]

Is there any support to make this 2.2.8 compatible?

[Zzed]

I made this hack back in the 2.2.5 - 2.2.6 days.

You should not have any problems installing for 2.2.8.

Let me know have any problems.

[drumsy]

Originally posted by Zzed
I made this hack back in the 2.2.5 - 2.2.6 days.

You should not have any problems installing for 2.2.8.

Let me know have any problems.

My apologies, one of my core files ftp'ed incorrectly and was spaced improperly. Installed and functional! :)

[Zachery]

ill get around to installing this later, i would love this for vb3 when (if) its released

[ImportPassion]

Does this have any affect on server load or anything related?

D

[Zzed]

Since it makes calls to the sleep function, it should not impose anything on the server. ;)

[ImportPassion]

i installed it. damn this is funny shiznet. :D

[Boofo]

Ok, Zzed, where's the other one you told us about? ;)

[Zzed]

Today at 01:40 PM Boofo said this in Post #57 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=365772#post365772)
Ok, Zzed, where's the other one you told us about? ;)

LOL @ Boofo... :D

I have not released that one yet.

I am going to be known as the most sadistic hack maker on VB.org... :D

Here is a sneak preview of what the other hack looks like. ;)

Forum View (http://www.ls1.com/forums/forum2.jpg)
Thread View (http://www.ls1.com/forums/thread2.jpg)

It kills people having to deal with no images and being limited to only 20 characters per post. :D

[Boofo]

I got to have this one, BUDDY!!! (How's that for sucking up? I have no pride. ;)). April 1st is on it's way here and I am doing an April Fool's joke hack and this would fit in nicely. ;)

[Zzed]

Today at 02:33 PM Boofo said this in Post #59 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=365808#post365808)
I got to have this one, BUDDY!!! (How's that for sucking up? I have no pride. ;)). April 1st is on it's way here and I am doing an April Fool's joke hack and this would fit in nicely. ;)

You freak. :D:D:D

Ok, I will release it in the next few days. :)

[Boofo]

Yes, I am a freak. I need my freak fix. And you are the only one who seems to be able to satisfy that anymore. ;) Be looking forward to it.

[Zzed]

http://www.ls1.com/.zed/lmao.gif

Will do. ;)

[cybermomcafe]

ummm maybe i'm doing something wrong, but when I run the sql query

"alter table user add miserable smallint(5) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL;"

I get the error message:

You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'DEFAULT0 NOT NULL ' at line 1??

[Boofo]

Try this:

alter table user add miserable smallint(5) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

[cybermomcafe]

Thanks! i'm new at the hack thing LOL :)

[Boofo]

No problem. We have all been there. ;)

[cybermomcafe]

tee hee.... me likes

(hadda test it out... had to clear my cookies to be able to even log out LOL)

[Zzed]

Today at 04:52 PM cybermomcafe said this in Post #67 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=365875#post365875)
tee hee.... me likes

(hadda test it out... had to clear my cookies to be able to even log out LOL)


LOL :D

You can always try and log into your Admin CP to get around the misery hack, and set yourself back to normal. ;)

[CJi]

ROFL! This is perfect! Well done...!

[Judo Gno]

OMG, what a great hack. This is awesome. Thank you very much for this. We installed it today and it already has a few very deserving victems. lol

[TheEDIGuy]

I'm going to install this, because we have a few users who connect from a large number of different IP's so we can't ban them. It would be even better if we could set a level of how miserable we want the user. Like 1 for just the occasional error and short delays, or 10 for full-on misery.

Great hack, my mods are begging me to install!

[TheEDIGuy]

I installed, and changed some of the random values, but I'm getting this:

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/global.php:366) in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/showthread.php on line 151

Not every time, just once in a while.

[Rick]

Help... I tried to install this twice and I don't see anywhere in the Admin CP to implement it. I am running 2.2.8.

No errors.

TIA,

Rick

[Zzed]

The file used by admin CP is admin/user.php...

[Rick]

Ok, I got it to say "List Miserable Users" at the top of the user.php page when it's accessed. But how do I make a user miserable? Where is the "switch" for that?

[Zzed]

Today at 11:39 PM Rick said this in Post #75 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=366535#post366535)
Ok, I got it to say "List Miserable Users" at the top of the user.php page when it's accessed. But how do I make a user miserable? Where is the "switch" for that?

When you edit a user's profile in the admin CP. ;)

[TheEDIGuy]

Yesterday at 08:20 PM TheEDIGuy said this in Post #72 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=366357#post366357)
I installed, and changed some of the random values, but I'm getting this:

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/global.php:366) in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/showthread.php on line 151

Not every time, just once in a while.


I should clarify, I made myself a Miserable User, and after the delay, this is what I see most of the time. Is this SUPPOSED to appear?

[TheVoidz]

Zzed, I feel sorry for members that get in the way on your boards :laugh:. Although great hack.

[Craigr]

I've now installed this hack as well as making the user unable to logout.

Fun. :D

Craig

[Zzed]

Yesterday at 08:46 AM TheVoidz said this in Post #78 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=366751#post366751)
Zzed, I feel sorry for members that get in the way on your boards :laugh:. Although great hack.

LOL :D

They get struck by plenty more than just misery. :D

[Zzed]

Today at 05:13 AM maoz440 said this in Post #81 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=367337#post367337)


As of this time I do not have access to the MySQL prompt, can anyone write a little script to do this for me? Thanks :D

maoz


Create a new ,php file in your forums directory and copy the following lines in there. Save the file, execute it one time and delete. ;)


<?php
error_reporting(7);

require("./global.php");
$DB_site->query("alter table user add miserable smallint(5) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL;");
?>

[Boofo]

Shouldn't that be?

$DB_site->query("alter table user add miserable smallint(5) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;");

[Zzed]

I thought numeric fields are not required to be quoted but you can still quote them if you want.

[Boofo]

I don't think they are required but there are a lot of users who get db errors without them sometimes. So, it is usually better to just use them and avoid all of the "Why did I get this db error?" messages. ;)

And where is my "fix" you promised me? I'm shaking here, Zzed! ;)

[Zachery]

so i take it the changes to the mysql db are to make the user group? cuz i am abit confused about how this works

-btw still havent had time to install

[Zzed]

Today at 08:45 PM Faranth said this in Post #86 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=367919#post367919)
so i take it the changes to the mysql db are to make the user group? cuz i am abit confused about how this works


-btw still havent had time to install


No. The hack adds a new field to the user table to indicate whether a user is miserable or not. The default value for miserable is 0. When a user is made miserable a value of 1 is assigned to the miserable field. ;)

[Hippycrack]

I'm still very new at hacking and I'm have a problem with this

################################################## ##########

From the MySQL prompt execute the following statement:

alter table user add miserable smallint(5) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL;

################################################## ##########

I Create a new ,php file in your forums directory and copy the following lines in there. Save the file, execute it one time

PHP:

<?php

error_reporting(7);

require("./global.php");

$DB_site->query("alter table user add miserable smallint(5) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL;");

?>

***and I got this error message.

Warning: main(./global.php) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /www/n/nOpenworldz/htdocs/miserable.php on line 16

What do I do from here?

[Zzed]

What is the URL to your forums?

That file should be placed in the same directory that the URL points to.

[midnightz]

Hello,

Is there a fix for this hack to work with the arcade hack. It seems that the $postbits .=getpostbit($post); is where the problem is in the showthread.php. The arcde hack starts there, I tried some get arounds but had no luck, it makes your posts error with and not show up. i asked one person I know and they said they couldn't see a fix.

Helpers :)

midz

[lordofgun]

Today at 08:36 AM midnightz said this in Post #88 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=367989#post367989)
Hello,

Is there a fix for this hack to work with the arcade hack. It seems that the $postbits .=getpostbit($post); is where the problem is in the showthread.php. The arcde hack starts there, I tried some get arounds but had no luck, it makes your posts error with and not show up. i asked one person I know and they said they couldn't see a fix.

Helpers :)

midz

I had the same prob. I just took that part out since i didn't care about having the arcade icons in the showthread. The arcade still works fine.

[Zachery]

do you have to manually change the data in the mysql db to make them a miserable user?

[Zzed]

Today at 07:08 PM Faranth said this in Post #90 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=368402#post368402)
do you have to manually change the data in the mysql db to make them a miserable user?

No. admin/user.php gives you an interface via the Admin CP to make a user miserable while you edit a user. ;)

[Morgalis]

first..

we are not worthy... we are not worthy

just wanted to mention.. i found this out the hard way

i made a new user and defaulted them miserable.. fun stuff

wheni went to edit a user.. i got a dbase error


makeyesnocode("Miserable user","miserable",$user[miserable]);


can go in both the Add and Edit User.. my haste in trying it out, left the Edit User part out

just in case someone comes across an error ;)

[Zzed]

Morgalis, Thank you for your kind words. I am not worthy. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

So is it working for you, or you are still getting that error?

[NuclioN]

A 'non miserable user' was reporting problems with the forum in a way that i would aspect if this member was a M-user. I've looked for other possibillities but after removing the hack the member had no problems. I wonder now how many other members of our forum had this problem but did'nt mention it.....

[Zzed]

You probably had a typo while installing the hack. I have personally installed this on 3 different sites and have had to port the hack from 2.2.4 all the way to 2.2.9 and I never had any problems.

You can send me an Email or a PM if you need help with this. :)

edwink@seebeyond.com

[TheEDIGuy]

03-15-03 at 09:03 AM TheEDIGuy said this in Post #76 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=366673#post366673)
I installed, and changed just some of the chances of things happening, but I'm getting this:

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/global.php:366) in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/showthread.php on line 151

Not every time, just once in a while.
----
I should clarify, I made myself a Miserable User, and after the delay, this is what I see most of the time. Is this SUPPOSED to appear?

Just curious if I'm the only person running into this? I really want to start using this on a couple of our bad users, but I really don't want to be showing them filenames in the errors, just from a security standpoint.

[Zzed]

Today at 01:41 PM TheEDIGuy said this in Post #96 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=368789#post368789)


Just curious if I'm the only person running into this? I really want to start using this on a couple of our bad users, but I really don't want to be showing them filenames in the errors, just from a security standpoint.

That warning is because of the echo " "; statement in global.php. You can choose to remove that statement from global.php. The only reason why I did it is because I did not want for my web browser to time out when I force a long sleep. The echo statement prevents the timeout. ;)

[TheEDIGuy]

Thanks, Zzed. I'll remove it and give it a try. My mods are begging me to apply this, they're putting together a list as I speak. :)

[Kathy]

This cracks me up. I laughed and laughed while reading this hack's description. Sounds like fun! (in a weird sort of way...when you consider how some members can make us miserable...) ;)

I'm still laughing....poor miserable people. :D

[Zelda-King]

The query would not work for me without ''s around the 0, ie '0'.

[cirisme]

I love this hack. :D

[Pikok]

I love this hack, but I also use the ban by warning hack. Currently when a user reaches a preset number of warning points, they're moved to the banned by warnings group. What I need is to be able set a usergroup as miserable or not, rather than an individual user.

Users aren't allowed to see the warnings list, so they don't know how many points equals a ban. How would I set it up so that if a user is in the banned group they are miserable, but if not they aren't. I may sometimes unban a user (by moving them out of the banned usergroup) at which time I'd need for them to not be miserable any longer (only while in the banned usergroup).

Anyone know how to put an option in the usergroup section of the admin cp where I could set a certain group as miserable or not, as oposed to an individual user? I'd like to have the option listed when a usergroup is created/edited, much like the group permissions are.

Thanks for any help..

[Zzed]

Add this before the if($bbuserinfo[miserable] == 1) code in global.php


if($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == $banned_usergroupid) {
$bbuserinfo[miserable] = 1;
}


Where $banned_usergroupid is the usergroup number for your banned users.

It will make all the users who belong to that usergroup miserable as soon as they log into your site. ;)

[Pikok]

Thanks for the quick response! This is what my global.php looks like now:
if($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 8) {
$bbuserinfo[miserable] = 1;
}
if($bbuserinfo[miserable] == 1) {
$glitch = rand(60,120);
for($x = 0;$x < $glitch;$x++) {
echo " ";
sleep(1);
}
$floodchecktime *=10;

$glitch = rand(0,100);
if(glitch < 90) {
$enablesearches = 0;
}

$glitch = rand(0,100);
if($glitch < 75) {
eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate('error_toobusy')."\");");
exit;
}
else {
$glitch = rand(0,100);
if ($glitch < 80) {
if ($glitch < 50) {
exit;
}
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" CONTENT=\"5; URL=index.php\"> ";
}
}

$showforumusers = 0;
$displayloggedin = 0;
}
Just one more question though. If I later move a user out of the banned usergroup, will they automatically be not miserable or do need to add some sort of elseif statement to the usergroup part I just added that would setit to 0 rather than 1?

[Zzed]

Very cool. ;)

You won't have to do anything since the misery flag gets set if the user belongs to the banned group. moving them back to the registered user group will not set that flag anymore.

[Pikok]

Okay, thanks.. :D

This hack is pure evil!!! I love it!

Keep up the great work!

[Zzed]

Thank you for your kind words. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

[Big Daddy Chemo]

This hack will prove to be timeless... ;)

One request though -> can you offer some code that will give MODS the ability to toggle the misery setting as well?

[Pikok]

Today at 09:43 PM Big Daddy Chemo said this in Post #108 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=370156#post370156)
This hack will prove to be timeless... ;)

One request though -> can you offer some code that will give MODS the ability to toggle the misery setting as well?
That would be a good option. Would need to be a way of also setting it so that mods couldn't set other mods and/or admins to miserable though.. Only admins or those with admin cpanel access would be able to make mods/admins miserable.

[Zzed]

Oh boy, I knew this was going to get me in trouble. :D

I have this hack in place on my site. But it combines 6 other hacks which gives the moderators the power to impose misery, starvation, and a couple other hacks on users for time periods of 1, 3, or 7 days. And after the "served time" the users go back to normal.

I need to think about how to do a partial release of what I have in place... :(

[Boofo]

Zzed, is now a good time? ;)

[Zzed]

Sure, give me a call. :D

[Overgrow]

Possibly my favorite hack of all time even though I never see the direct results of it.. I dunno where that hack of the month competition is, but this should be it.

I've made it a more permanent form of removal on my site.. When you get "miserable'd", all of your posts are replaced by

[account removed]

except for when the miserable person actually gets to view it. So it effectively deletes all of their posts at the same time.

[Zzed]

Today at 11:05 PM Overgrow said this in Post #113 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=370405#post370405)
Possibly my favorite hack of all time even though I never see the direct results of it.. I dunno where that hack of the month competition is, but this should be it.

I've made it a more permanent form of removal on my site.. When you get "miserable'd", all of your posts are replaced by

[account removed]

except for when the miserable person actually gets to view it. So it effectively deletes all of their posts at the same time.

OMG... I am not worthy. Thank you for your kind words. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

BTW, your hack is quite diabolic. :D

[Zachery]

im only able to change it in the admin cp :\ .... i was in the mod cp and i couldnt find it

i checked the database after i made a user miserable, and it seems that he is, eventho i did it via the admin cp

[Zzed]

This hack be used only through the Admin CP and not the Mod CP.

[Courage]

I love this hack.

This + Secretly Banned Users ROCKS !

[voclain]

Zzed:

I have to tell you...I am a newby to all of this HACK stuff.

And I remember about a year ago when I upgraded to VB wondering why in the world would I ever want to BAN someone...so....I made it a policy of my board that NO ONE would ever be banned!!!

WELL...I've just come throught the WEEK from HELL!!! This one guy has cause so many problems...all with the INTENT of being banned...testing the POLICY!!!

YOUR Hack is a GOD SENT!!! I can now put this IDIOT on the MISERABLE LIST and now I'm happy,,my users are happy,,,HE's BANNED, and he doesn't even know it.....and the thought of him sitting there.....MISERABLE in front of his computer waiting,,,and waiting,,,and waiting....

WOW...it just makes my heart jump for joy!!!

THANK YOU...THANK YOU.....THANK YOU!!!

Kirk Voclain
http://www.pro4um.com

[Zzed]

Wow. :) Thank you for your kind words. :)

[JFry]

Oh, boy do I have a couple miserable users :lol Thanks, man.

[Dribbles]

a most excellent and evil hack!

[Rynthar]

Hi, I installed the hack and everything, but in my user profiles in Admin CP, there is no usergroup for Miserable users. What do I do?

[Zzed]

Today at 01:33 PM Rynthar said this in Post #122 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=379330#post379330)
Hi, I installed the hack and everything, but in my user profiles in Admin CP, there is no usergroup for Miserable users. What do I do?

It is not a usergroup. It is a clickable option in the edit user screen. It is a property of a user that can be turned on of off. ;)

[Beth]

Thank you. This will help me out immensely :)

[Zzed]

You are very welcome. :)

[wolfman]

I can not thank you enough for this hack. I have noticed that it does help with the lame users that want to cause problems since a normal ban they clearly know this and use a dupe account.

[Zzed]

Today at 03:08 PM wolfman said this in Post #126 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=390626#post390626)
I can not thank you enough for this hack. I have noticed that it does help with the lame users that want to cause problems since a normal ban they clearly know this and use a dupe account.


Thank you very much for your kind words. :)

[cturcich]

:D

[Jujimufu]

Oh man, this is more than lovely, this is damn wicked! THANKS SO MUCH! YOU ROCK HAHAHAH!!! I hate the **#(@O HATERS! AND NOW LOL!...

but not just mean people, annoying spammers or whatever too, you rock man *hugs guy that created hack*

[Zzed]

Thank you for your kind words. :)

[pie]

nice idea bud.

[Areku]

After using for a long while this hack, it's obvious that only people that try to log in with his banned nick will get the too busy, but 99% of them notice that when logged out they can navigate without problems (and registering a new account solves the problem too), so I was wondering which kind of message do you people use so they really think server is bugged out....

[Zzed]

Recognizing people is a very hard thing to do. :(

I have implemented an unpublished IP trapping mechanism that works like the VBulletin IP ban, except that anyone, registered or guest, coming in on an IP in that list will have a miserable session. This will not work with dial up users because they are coming in on an IP pool and I have in some cases 200+ people sharing the same dialup IP in my IP records.

But this works finr with users who have limited IP's. I have also added the IP addresses of some big name anonymizers to my miserable IP list.

[king sting]

Pure evil, I love it, there are some times when we just want to get under someones skin cuz they post up hella stupid commentary. hahaha this will teach em

[atomic fireball]

This hack is pure and utter GENIUS.

I'm still setting up my board, and it hasn't been launched yet, but now I look forward to the day when I get some user to make miserable. ;)

Great idea!!

[majin gotenks]

lol this seems so cool, im going to install it on my test board. thanks!

[gmarik]

It's the best idea I've ever seen on vB!

[Zzed]

Thank you all for your kind words. I am most honored and very grateful. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

[amykhar]

Ah, it's very quiet on my board now. Blessed relief. Thank you. We had a twit who had to say something and obnoxious in almost every thread that he read. I watched him try to get in for ages today, but we got some relief from his antics today.

[vB-Host.com]

Ok install worked but when in a profile and change it to mis user yes and hit update I get this...

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL: SELECT userid
FROM user
WHERE username='testing'
AND userid <>
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 4

[vB-Host.com]

/me bumps thread

Since I installed this I can't do anything with a user in the admin cp.. I have someone who lost there password and no longer has the e-mail address they registered with and when I go to update his password I get the same error as above.. please help!

[legendarysk8er]

What a great idea, make them suffer! I might install this later if I feel like it..

[superman]

Must try this, it's a good idea, so the user thinks he isn't banned, then won't make a new acc, cool :D

[KelteN]

Nice Hack!

[Zzed]

Thank you guys for all your kind words. :)

[Steve W.]

In the instructions it says to find:

while ($post=$DB_site->fetch_array($posts) and $counter++<$perpage) {

if ($postdone[$post[postid]]) {
$counter--;
continue;
} else {
$postdone[$post[postid]]=1;
}
$postbits .= getpostbit($post);
}

Instead of that, I have:

while ($post=$DB_site->fetch_array($posts) and $counter++<$perpage) {

if ($postdone[$post[postid]]) {
$counter--;
continue;
} else {
$postdone[$post[postid]]=1;
}

$post[postcount] = ++$postcount;
$post[totalposts] = $totalposts;
$postbits .= getpostbit($post);
}

Probably ebcause of another installed hack. Is there any way I can add the info to what I have already?

[Steve W.]

Oh, and instead of:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET birthday='$birthday',options='$options',usergroupi d='$usergroupid',username='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($ausername))."'$pwdinclude,email='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($email))."',styleid='$userstyleid',parentemail='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($parentemail))."',coppauser=$coppauser,homepage='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($homepage))."',icq='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($icq))."',aim='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($aim))."',yahoo='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($yahoo))."',signature='".addslashes($signature)."',adminemail=$adminemail,showemail=$showemail,invi sible=$invisible,usertitle='".addslashes($usertitle)."',customtitle=$customtitle,joindate=$joindate,cook ieuser=$cookieuser,nosessionhash=$nosessionhash,da ysprune='$daysprune',lastvisit=$lastvisit,lastacti vity=$lastactivity,lastpost=$lastpost,posts='$post s',timezoneoffset='$timezoneoffset',emailnotificat ion=$emailnotification,receivepm='$receivepm',emai lonpm='$emailonpm',ipaddress='".addslashes($aipaddress)."',pmpopup=IF(pmpopup=2 AND $pmpopup=1,pmpopup,'$pmpopup') WHERE userid=$userid");

I have:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET birthday='$birthday',options='$options',usergroupi d='$usergroupid',username='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($ausername))."'$pwdinclude,email='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($email))."',styleid='$userstyleid',parentemail='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($parentemail))."',coppauser=$coppauser,homepage='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($homepage))."',icq='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($icq))."',aim='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($aim))."',yahoo='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($yahoo))."',signature='".addslashes($signature)."',adminemail=$adminemail,showemail=$showemail,invi sible=$invisible,usertitle='".addslashes($usertitle)."',customtitle=$customtitle,joindate=$joindate,cook ieuser=$cookieuser,nosessionhash=$nosessionhash,da ysprune='$daysprune',lastvisit=$lastvisit,lastacti vity=$lastactivity,lastpost=$lastpost,posts='$post s',profileview='$profileview',timezoneoffset='$tim ezoneoffset',emailnotification=$emailnotification, receivepm='$receivepm',emailonpm='$emailonpm',ipad dress='".addslashes($aipaddress)."',pmpopup=IF(pmpopup=2 AND $pmpopup=1,pmpopup,'$pmpopup') WHERE userid=$userid");

:(

[pdblizzard]

Zzed, I just installed this hack and I have to tell you, it's awesome! You have just reduced my stress level about 10000%. My offline family thanks you for that! :ogre:

Even though it works, I must have done something wrong though. I can get around it by making the change to the user "miserable" field directly in the database, but maybe you can tell me what I did wrong.

When I use the user.php page to click them "on" to miserable, and then update, the change doesn't actually save in the database. I get no error message. The database field "miserable" is not changed.

Everything else works fine however, when I update the field manually. Any thoughts?

(YOU ROCK!)

[Zzed]

Steve make it look like this ;)


while ($post=$DB_site->fetch_array($posts) and $counter++<$perpage) {

if ($postdone[$post[postid]]) {
$counter--;
continue;
} else {
$postdone[$post[postid]]=1;
}

$post[postcount] = ++$postcount;
$post[totalposts] = $totalposts;

$onlinestat = "";
if(($post[miserable] == 1) || ($post[stunned] & 4)){
if(($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 5) or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 6) or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 7)) {
$onlinestat = "$onlinestat<br><font color=\"red\"><b>Miserable User</b></font>";
}
}

$post[posts]="$post[posts]$onlinestat";

$postbits .= getpostbit($post);
}



$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET birthday='$birthday',options='$options',usergroupi d='$usergroupid',username='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($ausername))."'$pwdinclude,email='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($email))."',styleid='$userstyleid',parentemail='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($parentemail))."',coppauser=$coppauser,homepage='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($homepage))."',icq='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($icq))."',aim='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($aim))."',yahoo='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($yahoo))."',signature='".addslashes($signature)."',adminemail=$adminemail,showemail=$showemail,invi sible=$invisible,usertitle='".addslashes($usertitle)." ',customtitle=$customtitle,joindate=$joindate,cook ieuser=$cookieuser,nosessionhash=$nosessionhash,da ysprune='$daysprune',lastvisit=$lastvisit,lastacti vity=$lastactivity,lastpost=$lastpost,posts='$post s',profileview='$profileview', timezoneoffset='$timezoneoffset',emailnotification =$emailnotification,receivepm='$receivepm',emailon pm='$emailonpm',ipaddress='".addslashes($aipaddress)."',pmpopup=IF(pmpopup=2 AND $pmpopup=1,pmpopup,'$pmpopup'), miserable=$miserable WHERE userid=$userid");

[Zzed]

Today at 09:20 AM pdblizzard said this in Post #148 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=408540#post408540)
Zzed, I just installed this hack and I have to tell you, it's awesome! You have just reduced my stress level about 10000%. My offline family thanks you for that! :ogre:

Even though it works, I must have done something wrong though. I can get around it by making the change to the user "miserable" field directly in the database, but maybe you can tell me what I did wrong.

When I use the user.php page to click them "on" to miserable, and then update, the change doesn't actually save in the database. I get no error message. The database field "miserable" is not changed.

Everything else works fine however, when I update the field manually. Any thoughts?

(YOU ROCK!)

Thank you for your kind words. :)

Check your pm's please. :)

[Steve W.]

Thanks for the changes Zzed, but after I did them, it all worked fiine until I hit yes to "miserable user?" and it gave me this:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET birthday='1988-05-04',options='15',usergroupid='2',username='Joe Obsessed',email='yasmin4joe@hotmail.com',styleid=' 0',parentemail='',coppauser=0,homepage='http://teenworld.upperboard.com',icq='',aim='',yahoo='',s ignature='Sometimes, I find myself Struggling to breathe
Without you, You are my air...I love you, Joe. You mean the world to me - you complete me. You\'re the only thing I need in my life at the moment. I think about you first thing in the morning and last thing at night - and I wanna say thank you for making me so happy...You are truely amazing and I don\'t think you realise just how wicked you are. You\'ve had the wicked impact on me that I\'ve never had before, and I love you. For that, and many other things, I wanna say thank you. Love you my babe x x x',adminemail=0,showemail=1,invisible=0,usertitle= '...So Sexy... ',customtitle=2,joindate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-05-22 02:45:53'),cookieuser=1,nosessionha
sh=1,daysprune='-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-11 12:12:42'),lastactivity=
activity,lastpost=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-12 16:07:43'),posts='54',profileview='6',timezoneof
fset='0',emailnotification=0,receivepm='
m',emailonpm='0',ipaddress='62.254.128.4',pmpopup= IF(pmpopup=2 AND 1=1,pmpopup,'1'), miserable=1 WHERE userid=8
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'sh=1,daysprune='-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-11 12:12:

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 13th of June 2003 03:58:50 PM
Script: http://rockpop.goldenpie.com/admin/user.php
Referer: http://rockpop.goldenpie.com/admin/user.php?action=edit&userid=8


Any ideas?

[Zzed]

Your query statement has the word sessionhash broken up in 2 lines where sessionha is on one line and sh is on the next. ;)

[Steve W.]

I changed it, but unfortuantly I got a:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET birthday='1988-05-04',options='15',usergroupid='2',username='Joe Obsessed',email='yasmin4joe@hotmail.com',styleid=' 0',parentemail='',coppauser=0,homepage='http://teenworld.upperboard.com',icq='',aim='',yahoo='',s ignature='Sometimes, I find myself Struggling to breathe
Without you, You are my air...I love you, Joe. You mean the world to me - you complete me. You\'re the only thing I need in my life at the moment. I think about you first thing in the morning and last thing at night - and I wanna say thank you for making me so happy...You are truely amazing and I don\'t think you realise just how wicked you are. You\'ve had the wicked impact on me that I\'ve never had before, and I love you. For that, and many other things, I wanna say thank you. Love you my babe x x x',adminemail=0,showemail=1,invisible=0,usertitle= '...So Sexy... ',customtitle=2,joindate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-05-22 02:45:53'),cookieuser=1,nosessionhash=1,daysprune= '-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-11 12:12:42'),lastactivity=
activity,lastpost=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-12 16:07:43'),posts='54',profileview='6',timezoneof
fset='0',emailnotification=0,receivepm='
m',emailonpm='0',ipaddress='62.254.128.4',pmpopup= IF(pmpopup=2 AND 1=1,pmpopup,'1'), miserable=1 WHERE userid=8
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'fset='0',emailnotification=0,receivepm='
m',emailonpm='0',ipad

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 13th of June 2003 05:46:45 PM
Script: http://rockpop.goldenpie.com/admin/user.php
Referer: http://rockpop.goldenpie.com/admin/user.php?action=edit&userid=8

[Zzed]

Today at 02:46 PM Steve W. said this in Post #153 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=408643#post408643)
I changed it, but unfortuantly I got a:

You have a PM from me. ;)

[Zzed]

Today at 02:46 PM Steve W. said this in Post #153 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=408643#post408643)
I changed it, but unfortuantly I got a:

This time it is the word timezoneoffset. It has been broken up into timezoneof and fset. ;)

[PhantomX]

brilliance! gracias amigo :)

[Zzed]

Thank you kind sir. :)

[wolfman]

Zzed,

I just have to asy thanks again for this hack. This is simply the most usefull hack I have on my board. Just to give a little background on how I am using it currently.

A few months back we had a group that split off and before doiing so had created multiple logins, to make it easier to get back in and cause trouble. Well we got those taken care of before this hack by banning them. Well a ban just added fuel to their fire. They would then use that as a badge or something with the other forum. Well since this hack has been added, they try to say they are banned, but we can honesly say they are not banned and that people can check in the members list to see for themselves.

I also know that they are not going to be offically supporting vb3 hacks on here at this time, which I can understand since it is in beta still. I just hope this is one hack that can make it to vb3 :)

[Zzed]

wolfman,

That is a great story. :) And thank you very much for your kind words. http://www.ls1.com/.zed/hail.gif

P.S. I am always the first victim of all my hacks. I know exactly how it feels to be struck by this hack. :D:D:D

[wolfman]

Well when I installed this my mods were like "Are you sure it works?" I setup a test account so they could try for themselves, though I did warn them that they might pull some of their hair out in the proccess.

The annoyance level of this hack I would have to put almost on the same level as those cardboard inserts in magazines. My first thought was that I wanted to choke you when I tested this hack for myself :) this one really does give the power back to the admin and mods of a forum as with a ban its to clear what has been done, this they do not know :dead:

[Zzed]

Today at 03:28 PM wolfman said this in Post #160 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=413531#post413531)
Well when I installed this my mods were like "Are you sure it works?" I setup a test account so they could try for themselves, though I did warn them that they might pull some of their hair out in the proccess.

The annoyance level of this hack I would have to put almost on the same level as those cardboard inserts in magazines. My first thought was that I wanted to choke you when I tested this hack for myself :) this one really does give the power back to the admin and mods of a forum as with a ban its to clear what has been done, this they do not know :dead:


LOL :D I almost fell out of my chair laughing about the choking comment. :D:D:D

Thank you again for your kind words. :)

P.S. check out my other hack about Starved users (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50474). ;)

[Zachery]

i didnt look, too lazy, but are you planning on doing this for vb3

[Zzed]

Today at 05:43 PM Faranth said this in Post #162 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=420055#post420055)
i didnt look, too lazy, but are you planning on doing this for vb3

If I ever upgrade to vb3 I will definitely port this hack. :)

[JulianD]

I've been using this hack successfully on my community. Some members are "too intensive" and I like to make them miserable for one day or two... It's great to see how you can take away somebody without actually banning them :)

[EvilLS1]

Wicked hack Zed. :evilgrin:

/me kicks install

[Zachery]

07-23-03 at 08:56 PM Zzed said this in Post #163 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=420059#post420059)
If I ever upgrade to vb3 I will definitely port this hack. :)


why do you say ever? my vb3 runs great :D

[Zzed]

Today at 08:30 PM Faranth said this in Post #166 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=420915#post420915)
why do you say ever? my vb3 runs great :D

Blame it on my utter laziness to upgrade versions and port all my hacks. :D

[Zzed]

Today at 02:52 PM EvilLS1 said this in Post #165 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=420872#post420872)
Wicked hack Zed. :evilgrin:

* EvilLS1 kicks install

Thank you for your kind words. :)

[Zachery]

ah :( thats kinda sad :\

how many hacks do you have to port?

[WCW Fan]

Great Hack installs one of the best I've seen Great Job



Had to make a change though I have vbproarcade and I don't have this in showthread.php

while ($post=$DB_site->fetch_array($posts) and $counter++<$perpage) {

if ($postdone[$post[postid]]) {
$counter--;
continue;
} else {
$postdone[$post[postid]]=1;
}
$postbits .= getpostbit($post);
}

so I did some pluging and playing and got this code to work

while ($post=$DB_site->fetch_array($posts) and $counter++<$perpage) {

if ($postdone[$post[postid]]) {
$counter--;
continue;
} else {
$postdone[$post[postid]]=1;
}

$onlinestat = "";
if(($post[miserable] == 1) || ($post[stunned] & 4)){
if(($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 5) or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 6) or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 7)) {
$onlinestat = "$onlinestat<br><font color=\"red\"><b>Miserable User</b></font>";
}
}
$post[posts]="$post[posts]$onlinestat";


Just left out the end part

$postbits .= getpostbit($post);
}

Im not sure why it works this way but it does so Woot :D

[MaDCaT75]

Will this hack be re-written for vB3?

[TonTon]

SQL-query :

ALTER TABLE user ADD miserable smallint( 5 ) unsignedDEFAULT0 NOT NULL

MySQL said:


You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'DEFAULT0 NOT NULL ' at line 1

:(

[Zzed]

Today at 06:40 AM TonTon said this in Post #172 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=422357#post422357)
SQL-query :

ALTER TABLE user ADD miserable smallint( 5 ) unsignedDEFAULT0 NOT NULL

MySQL said:


You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'DEFAULT0 NOT NULL ' at line 1

:(

Change this: ALTER TABLE user ADD miserable smallint( 5 ) unsignedDEFAULT0 NOT NULL

To this: ALTER TABLE user ADD miserable smallint( 5 ) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL

I added a space before and after DEFAULT. ;)

[BladeZz]

This hack works fabulous!Thank you very much!

[Airs]

Hey i installed this hack and surprisingly enough no errors whatsoever O_O but it dosent work? i click the yes and save changes and then when i look at it again its in no..it never changes to yes =/ any help? btw im running vb 2.3.0

[Zzed]

Today at 05:26 PM Airs said this in Post #175 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=422497#post422497)
Hey i installed this hack and surprisingly enough no errors whatsoever O_O but it dosent work? i click the yes and save changes and then when i look at it again its in no..it never changes to yes =/ any help? btw im running vb 2.3.0

Most porbably you forgot to change the "UPDATE user" query statement in admin/user.php. ;)

[-Sidekick-]

Hey Zzed I posted about a problem modifying the functions.php file for the Starved users hack and you had me email you my functions.php file.

You said you were gonna modify it for me and send it back. I never received it back. Did you need me to send it to you again?

[Airs]

Hey Zzed thnx for the quick reply ^^. Im afraid i did all the edit's correctly..atleast that i can see to user.php and still no go =/.

[MaDCaT75]

Why the hell cant I get this thing to work?

[Shiekron]

I get a bunch of garbled mess after I upload global.php

[Shiekron]

I fixed it, but now I'm getting this:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.2:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET birthday='0000-00-00',options='15',usergroupid='6',username='Shiekro n',email='serafin@eryxma.com',styleid='0',parentem ail='',coppauser=0,homepage='',icq='',aim='',yahoo ='',signature='',adminemail=1,showemail=1,invisibl e=0,usertitle='I\'m so nice. I host this ++++ty site for free.',customtitle=1,joindate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-08-09 02:02:18'),cookieuser=1,nosessionhash=0,daysprune= '-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-08-09 04:11:56'),lastactivity=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-08-09 05:47:42'),lastpost=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('1969-12-31 18:00:00'),posts='0',timezoneoffset='0',emailnotif ication=0,receivepm='0',emailonpm='0',ipaddress='' ,pmpopup=IF(pmpopup=2 AND 0=1,pmpopup,'0'), miserable=1 WHERE userid=1
mysql error: Unknown column 'miserable' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Saturday 09th of August 2003 11:01:23 AM
Script: http://talk.dorksnet.org//talk/admin/user.php
Referer: http://www.dorksnet.org/talk/admin/user.php?s=&action=edit&userid=1

[MaDCaT75]

Someone wanna help me please? I cant see anything in admin cp that lets me make a user miserable!

[-Sidekick-]

Today at 10:59 AM Shiekron said this in Post #181 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=424587#post424587)
I fixed it, but now I'm getting this:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.2:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET birthday='0000-00-00',options='15',usergroupid='6',username='Shiekro n',email='serafin@eryxma.com',styleid='0',parentem ail='',coppauser=0,homepage='',icq='',aim='',yahoo ='',signature='',adminemail=1,showemail=1,invisibl e=0,usertitle='I\'m so nice. I host this ++++ty site for free.',customtitle=1,joindate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-08-09 02:02:18'),cookieuser=1,nosessionhash=0,daysprune= '-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-08-09 04:11:56'),lastactivity=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-08-09 05:47:42'),lastpost=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('1969-12-31 18:00:00'),posts='0',timezoneoffset='0',emailnotif ication=0,receivepm='0',emailonpm='0',ipaddress='' ,pmpopup=IF(pmpopup=2 AND 0=1,pmpopup,'0'), miserable=1 WHERE userid=1
mysql error: Unknown column 'miserable' in 'field list'

mysql error number: 1054

Date: Saturday 09th of August 2003 11:01:23 AM
Script: http://talk.dorksnet.org//talk/admin/user.php
Referer: http://www.dorksnet.org/talk/admin/user.php?s=&action=edit&userid=1

Run the queries for the hack again. It looks like you forgot to run the query that alters that table and adds the miserable field.

[MaDCaT75]

Yesterday at 08:36 PM MaDCaT75 said this in Post #182 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=424639#post424639)
Someone wanna help me please? I cant see anything in admin cp that lets me make a user miserable!

[Shiekron]

Today at 12:51 AM -Sidekick- said this in Post #183 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=424694#post424694)
Run the queries for the hack again. It looks like you forgot to run the query that alters that table and adds the miserable field.

I'm guessing you mean the MySQL prompt execute?

[MaDCaT75]

Will someone for the love of god tell me why mine doesnt work?!

[-Sidekick-]

Today at 02:04 AM Shiekron said this in Post #185 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=424773#post424773)
I'm guessing you mean the MySQL prompt execute?

yes. Run this in phpMyAdmin:

alter table user add miserable smallint(5) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL;

or however you choose to run the query.

[-Sidekick-]

Today at 02:12 AM MaDCaT75 said this in Post #186 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=424775#post424775)
Will someone for the love of god tell me why mine doesnt work?!

Go to find a user in your admin cp. Search for a user and go to Edit User.

If you don't see the option in there, then you did not properly install this hack.

[MaDCaT75]

But I did everything right I dont understand!!!! :cry:

[Zachery]

try making your self a miserable user :P

you do it under user options

[MaDCaT75]

woohoo I found it :)

[Zachery]

im confused :\ why cant you?

[MaDCaT75]

Nevermind I saw the option for it, thanks!

[4thgenresource]

If any of you guys are having problems, feel free to send me your global.php, showthread.php, admin/user.php files and i can most likely fix them for you, as i had the same problems as you guys, but worked them out on my own, since Zzed never did get back to me about it :)

[Zachery]

i dont suggest sending this person any files

[4thgenresource]

08-18-03 at 04:22 AM Faranth said this in Post #195 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=426728#post426728)
i dont suggest sending this person any files


why, because i dont have as many posts as you? :rolleyes:

Feel free to visit my board mr. perfect

www.thiswebsitesucks.net

[MaDCaT75]

hehe whoops forgot to click install for this :p

[MaDCaT75]

Is there a way so that moderators can put users as a miserable user?

[Dennis B]

* Dennis B clicks install.
Awesome hack Zed. :)

[lasto]

Yesterday at 12:30 AM MaDCaT75 said this in Post #198 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=430231#post430231)
Is there a way so that moderators can put users as a miserable user?



not really a good idea to do that as mods could use it just for fun or to ++++ people off

[MaDCaT75]

Well thats why you have moderators that you can trust ;)

[MaDCaT75]

Also... can someone make an addon to this that re-directs a user to "page not found" page when they hit the submit button or something?

[MaDCaT75]

09-05-03 at 12:08 AM MaDCaT75 said this in Post #202 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=431404#post431404)
Also... can someone make an addon to this that re-directs a user to "page not found" page when they hit the submit button or something?

Anyone? :(

[Keyser S?ze]

installed vb 2.3.2

excellent hack!!

[pixelghetto]

I'm having trouble installin' this hack, as I am not sure about how to do the "mySQL prompt" bit of the hack. Can anyone help me out, as I installed it and when I make a user "miserable" I get back a database error. :cry:

[MaDCaT75]

Can someone please tell me how to make it so that moderators can put someone as miserable?

[MaDCaT75]

anyone?

[bandit022]

awesome hack!

just what i needed for a few select "bad apples"

but one question... is there a reason that miserable users can't view the "who's online"?

i'd like for the miserble users to be able to see the who's online at the bottom of forumhome, just so that they don't begin to wonder if someone is screwing with them.

thanks

-bandit

[MaDCaT75]

But isnt that the point of the miserable user hack? To screw with their heads?

[midnightz]

Is there a way so that moderators can put users as a miserable user?

I am looking for the same thing, I have two super moderators that only have access to that mod CP and I have added Xenon's hack to edit users, I have manged to get the radio buttons inside the mod CP and have all in place, but it wont save because I dont know what code to put to give them that option.

I am in need of the same solution as well, I thought I had it but I didnt (close though)

Thanks

[Keyser S?ze]

is there anyway to remove the red text? i dont want ppl relizeing they are banned (miserable)

[MaDCaT75]

The people dont know that they are miserable.... only mods and admins can see the red text.

And also they will think its a problem with the forum server when trying to go anywhere.

[Keyser S?ze]

is there any way to make it so only admins see it? not mods

[Blue91]

Hello all,

Great hack... I just installed it and tested it, and it works GREAT! However!!!.... when I click on a thread, at the top of the page, on every post, this is there....

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/virtual/site341/fst/var/www/html/forums/global.php:395) in /home/virtual/site341/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1573


I looked at the lines listed in each file and both are a simple " } " on a line all by itself.

How do I fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

[Blue91]

NM, fixed it. Just uploaded the original global.php again from the zip and redid the changes specified, and all seems fine now. Wierd.

Anyways, GREAT HACK!

[maestrosdelweb]

It seems like an efective way to get rid of some of my not useful users.

Thanks for the great hack.

[weewilly]

All I can say about this hack is....

Awesome!
*clicks install

[PAINTBALLM]

hey man since you wrote this hack, I wanted to know if you or someone could modify it so when they try to access your site, it loads a 2 frame page, the top frame saying "you are banned, while you are banned you are only able to see our sponsors websites, and you will not have access to our forums until your ban is up". And then it lets them pick from a drop down of sponsors which it would load in the bottom frame.. I think that would be a great addition to this hack :)

[syedakm]

I am getting the following error when i type the MySQL error, need help

syntax error near unexpected token 'smallint(5'

[MrNase]

it may have been mentioned: great!!!!

thank you sooo much :)

[KuraFire]

I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this yet, but...

it would be an even more useful hack if it would also (optionally) let you make certain IP-addresses be miserable, instead of users/usergroups.

Why? Suppose you have 2 members, who live in the same building. One of 'm is an ass, the other is fine. If you only block one user, they're likely to figure out that you made *some* sort of change to his/her account. If you block their ip address(es), they'll not know why and reckon it's an ISP/routing problem instead (because that's far more likely then). :)

Can be WAY more effective, that way ^_^

[Zachery]

I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this yet, but...

it would be an even more useful hack if it would also (optionally) let you make certain IP-addresses be miserable, instead of users/usergroups.

Why? Suppose you have 2 members, who live in the same building. One of 'm is an ass, the other is fine. If you only block one user, they're likely to figure out that you made *some* sort of change to his/her account. If you block their ip address(es), they'll not know why and reckon it's an ISP/routing problem instead (because that's far more likely then). :)

Can be WAY more effective, that way ^_^
i still wanna see this for vbulletin 3 ;)

[MrNase]

would be a nice "nice to have" :)

Iam testing it right now, the frontpage isn't loading for me. absolutly great! :)

[Zzed]

I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this yet, but...

it would be an even more useful hack if it would also (optionally) let you make certain IP-addresses be miserable, instead of users/usergroups.

Why? Suppose you have 2 members, who live in the same building. One of 'm is an ass, the other is fine. If you only block one user, they're likely to figure out that you made *some* sort of change to his/her account. If you block their ip address(es), they'll not know why and reckon it's an ISP/routing problem instead (because that's far more likely then). :)

Can be WAY more effective, that way ^_^

I have the IP based misery working in my forums. In fact I have applied it to most of the anonymizers and a few users. It is working like a charm. But I never did an Admin CP interface for it and I enter the information into an array of IP addresses in the php source.

I am not sure if this would interest anyone. I suppose I can make an Admin CP interface for it as well. :)

[KuraFire]

I have the IP based misery working in my forums. In fact I have applied it to most of the anonymizers and a few users. It is working like a charm. But I never did an Admin CP interface for it and I enter the information into an array of IP addresses in the php source.

I am not sure if this would interest anyone. I suppose I can make an Admin CP interface for it as well. :)
Would be nice. If you could send it to me I could also do it for vB3, but that's up to you :)

[trekwarfare]

WOW! I don't have a lot of user on my site yet, but this is NICE. A real good way to deal with an annoying user.

Thanks!!

[djnoz]

After playing around a bit, I installed this in VB3... it wasn't a full hack though. I just added the miserable code to global.php and then added the miserable column to the user table.

To make it work you have to run the query manually for each user that you want as miserable.

Here's my implementation:

Open miserable.txt and run the query
Apply the first modification to global.php ONLY and upload it

For each username you want miserable, run this query

update user SET miserable="1" WHERE username="xxx";

replace xxx with username

Not the cleanest hack in the world but we were desperate for it, :P

[KuraFire]

djnoz, it can be done a lot easier than that on vB3 :)

For this to be applied on a vB3 board, you really should just make a new (secondary) usergroup called "Miserable Users", make it non-public and put people in that group (along with their normal group, ie. the Miserable usergroup has no additional permissions anywhere, it's just important to note the usergroupid). Then in global.php, put the Miserable code and make it dependant on the usergroupid of the Miserable usergroup, check for it in $bbuserinfo[usergroups] (iirc)

[HP409ss]

Awsome Hack. I had so much fun watching our trouble makers try to figure out what is worng.

[drumsy]

How can I dial this down a bit?

[drumsy]

How can I dial this down a bit?

Anyone?

[MarkB]

djnoz, it can be done a lot easier than that on vB3 :)

For this to be applied on a vB3 board, you really should just make a new (secondary) usergroup called "Miserable Users", make it non-public and put people in that group (along with their normal group, ie. the Miserable usergroup has no additional permissions anywhere, it's just important to note the usergroupid). Then in global.php, put the Miserable code and make it dependant on the usergroupid of the Miserable usergroup, check for it in $bbuserinfo[usergroups] (iirc)
As described by Kurafire, this way works great on vB3!! :)

I simply changed the first line of the global.php addition to:

if($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == MEMBERID) {

Where memberid=the new usergroup id :)

I used membergroupid because I kept the users main usergroup as 'registered', so the new miserable group is in his membergroupids record. If that makes sense!

Thanks for the hack! It's horrible LOL

[GMfullsize]

I am trying to install this hack but...

How do I do the first part? How do I get to the MySQL prompt?

I have a couple members I would really like to do this to. Thanks

[djnoz]

As described by Kurafire, this way works great on vB3!! :)

I simply changed the first line of the global.php addition to:

if($bbuserinfo[membergroupids] == MEMBERID) {

Where memberid=the new usergroup id :)

I used membergroupid because I kept the users main usergroup as 'registered', so the new miserable group is in his membergroupids record. If that makes sense!

Thanks for the hack! It's horrible LOL

Nice one. That had me stumped for ages ... I'll have to try that out ;)

[HP409ss]

I am trying to install this hack but...

How do I do the first part? How do I get to the MySQL prompt?

I have a couple members I would really like to do this to. Thanks

Well most hosts which provide servers will have a MYSQL admin pannel. In there you you will have a section to run a queries against the DB. If you dont have that a good tool to have installed is Webmin. It will allow you to do other cool things along with what you need for the DB queries.

[GMfullsize]

Well most hosts which provide servers will have a MYSQL admin pannel. In there you you will have a section to run a queries against the DB. If you dont have that a good tool to have installed is Webmin. It will allow you to do other cool things along with what you need for the DB queries.
Thanks, I got it working so dont come to our site cause the other admins may put you on it LOL

I am just messing with you.
You can probably figure out who this is. ;)

[influence]

BIg suggestion,

how about having sending a junkload of pop up's on the user . enough to freeze his pc and force him to restart . Then he will get tired of restarting, registering new email account and all that and just give up

[KuraFire]

Miserable Users for vB3 - NO FILE EDITS NECESSARY!

This vB3-version works with a new usergroup of your choice. Make a new usergroup, call it Miserable People or whatever you want, and note what usergroup id it is.

Next, put this code in your phpinclude_start template in vB3. Make sure to edit the $miserableid variable (at the start) and change it to the usergroupid of your Miserable People usergroup.

// Miserable Hack for vB3
// Ported by KuraFire to vB3, original vB2 version by Zzed
// ################################################## #####
// Put the id of your Miserable Usergroup here:
$miserableid = 22;
if (strpos($bbuserinfo['membergroupids'], ','))
{
$ids = explode(',', $bbuserinfo['membergroupids']);
}
else
{
$ids = array($bbuserinfo['membergroupids']);
}
if(in_array($miserableid, $ids) OR $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] == $miserableid)
{
$glitch = rand(60, 120);
for($x=0; $x<$glitch; $x++)
{
echo ' ';
sleep(1);
}

$vboptions['floodchecktime'] *= 10;
$glitch = rand(0, 100);
if($glitch < 90)
{
$vboptions['enablesearches'] = 0;
}

$glitch = rand(0, 100);
if ($glitch < 80)
{
if ($glitch < 50)
{
exit;
}
$templatecache['headinclude'] = '<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"refresh\" CONTENT=\"5; URL=/index.php\" />' . $templatecache['headinclude'];
}
}
unset($ids, $glitch, $miserableid);

Save your phpinclude_start template. Assign people you want to suffer to the new usergroup. You can just make it their Secondary usergroup (along with any others you want), you can also make it their Primary (not recommended).

Enjoy :)

[Silverstangs]

I just installed the hack on v2.3.3 with some minor changes, tested it and it works great.

Clicks install

[Janitor]

Be nice if they made a hack that would have a big dong popup for the banned users lol

[rkettner]

This is especially good for users that can't be IP banned... and keep coming back under different names. If you do this... they won't realize what is happening and just get sick of your site... instead of trying to come back as other user names from other IPs.

Somebody was thinkin! :classic:

[rkettner]

I actually once tracked a miserable user and watched him suffer for 2 whole
hours before he was able to make a simple post.

I don't know which is worse... that he was motivated enough to still post after 2 hours of trying... or that you watched him for that long :D. He he... just buggin.

[wrongful]

Miserable Users for vB3 - NO FILE EDITS NECESSARY!
Enjoy :)
Thanks a lot this was one of my favorite hacks ever! :)

[Slybone]

lol great hack
/me installs

[KuraFire]

vB3 version:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=59727

[Rob Weaver]

Our programmer installed the 'miserable user' hack today in our vB 2.3.3 and forgot to tell me how to implement it before leaving on holidays for a few weeks.

Can anyone tell me how to make someone 'miserable' now that I have the tool?

Thanks.

[Zachery]

Our programmer installed the 'miserable user' hack today in our vB 2.3.3 and forgot to tell me how to implement it before leaving on holidays for a few weeks.

Can anyone tell me how to make someone 'miserable' now that I have the tool?

Thanks.
in the ACP edit the user, theres a radio button to set them into the miserable user group :)

[Rob Weaver]

Thanks

[Rob Weaver]

Couldn't find a 'radio' button. Do I have to add a new group somewhere?

[MaDCaT75]

Anyone figured out a way to put it in the mod CP?