404 Error Ban

[Brad]

An updated version of my old hack done via plug-ins. Basicly, you stick a user in the 404 usergroup and they see 404 errors on every page.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67395

[roundhost]

Thankyou for this, very useful, it's like a not so horrible miserable users hack :p

Bad news:

Unknown column 'pmpermissions_bak' in 'field list'

When executing the query :p

I will just make the usergroup manually instead...

[The Wise One]

nice. can custom error pages be used with this?

[roundhost]

nice. can custom error pages be used with this?

Yes, but i think the point is that it makes the person think your site has gone down so they don't bother re-registering to spam your ass like the little ++++ers they are.

[Svenna]

nice job :nervous:

[The Wise One]

Yes, but i think the point is that it makes the person think your site has gone down so they don't bother re-registering to spam your ass like the little ++++ers they are.
how would one go about doing so?

[Dan]

Thankyou for this, very useful, it's like a not so horrible miserable users hack :p

Bad news:

Unknown column 'pmpermissions_bak' in 'field list'

When executing the query :p

I will just make the usergroup manually instead...

INSERT INTO usergroup (usergroupid, title, description, usertitle, passwordexpires, passwordhistory, pmquota, pmsendmax, pmforwardmax, opentag, closetag, canoverride, ispublicgroup, forumpermissions, pmpermissions, calendarpermissions, wolpermissions, adminpermissions, genericpermissions, genericoptions, attachlimit, avatarmaxwidth, avatarmaxheight, avatarmaxsize, profilepicmaxwidth, profilepicmaxheight, profilepicmaxsize) VALUES
(404, '404ed Users', 'Users who can not see the board, they see 404 errors', '', 0, 0, 50, 5, 5, '', '', 0, 0, 127487, 3, 19, 1, 0, 5319, 30, 7, 0, 80, 80, 20000, 100, 100, 65535)


Run that instead.

Edit: Nevermind doesn't work I'll fix it in a few moments...

[womensden]

any fix on this yet?

[TCM]

What worked for me:
INSERT INTO `usergroup` ( `usergroupid` , `title` , `description` , `usertitle` , `passwordexpires` , `passwordhistory` , `pmquota` , `pmsendmax` , `pmforwardmax` , `opentag` , `closetag` , `canoverride` , `ispublicgroup` , `forumpermissions` , `pmpermissions` , `calendarpermissions` , `wolpermissions` , `adminpermissions` , `genericpermissions` , `genericoptions` , `attachlimit` , `avatarmaxwidth` , `avatarmaxheight` , `avatarmaxsize` , `profilepicmaxwidth` , `profilepicmaxheight` , `profilepicmaxsize` )VALUES
('404', '404''d Users', 'Users who see 404 errors whenever they try to access the board.', '', '0', '0', '50', '5', '5', '', '', '0', '0', '127487', '3', '19', '1', '5319', '30', '7', '0', '80', '80', '20000', '100', '100', '65535');

EDIT: Note: I modifed the discription of the usergroup, but it's not important.

[TCM]

Hmm. I forgot the code, but shouldn't this be modified to check if the member's secondary usergroup is the 404 one?

[Boofo]

Brad, can you please update this for RC 1? ;)

[utw-Mephisto]

Will this be updated for RC2 / gold at all ?

[utw-Mephisto]

bump ?

[lamilein]

an updated plugin for RC3 would be really appreciated :)

[Zelda-King]

I do not like the usergroupid being set to '404'. When I add subsequent usergroups their id starts from 405. eg, 405, 406, etc.

Also, as per the more recent 404 Ban hack, on Firefox it just shows a blank page. I would imagine it works on IE.

[IrPr]

does work on 3.5.3?

[Wild-Wing]

Great hack good idea.

[Stone Cold 3:16]

does work on 3.5.3?

I assume it does, i installed it without any problem, trying to figure out how to use.