I think you're trying to discuss this in the wrong thread. MU isn't designed to deal with spammers. You need to stop them from registering in the first place.

Love this hack.. TY

So what are you guys doing when people ask for tech support? Just ignore the requests? Tell them you can't reproduce it? Turn up the settings so they can't ask anymore?

This is not something you would use very much. In the rare instances we've enabled it, nobody's asked for support. If they did, then I'd tell them it's working fine for me, and go on to use the opportunity to explain what it is they're doing wrong that got them into the trouble in the first place.

I've had great fun with this plugin. Being a mod can be a bit serious, so it's good to have some fun (and not feel guilty)

I've written a miserable module for Apache (http://linuxbox.co.uk/mod_miserable.php), not sure if it deserves it's own thread: I don't want to hijack this thread, but on the other hand this is specifically vbulletin forum, not a general server forum.

Part of the reason I wrote the Apache module was to offer a few features not available in the vb plugin: you can assign miserable to an IP address (rather than a username), an IP block (using wildcards), a domain, or various other attributes of the client (browser, referer domain, browser useragent etc). With it being an Apache module, it also operates on the whole site rather than just your /forum

Nice work :)

As ever PaulM, another great toy

I don't really see why you would want to make a member on your forum pissed off. If you don't like them ban them..

Thats fine, you obviously have no use for this mod, but plenty do, so please dont clutter the thread. Thanks.

That's the beauty of this hack.

IP banning is what pisses them off, using this hack they figure the board is broken and they go away.

Works like a charm for me for over 2 years.

The nature of one of my boards doesn't really allow me to ban someone.
But throwing the person into the miserable usergroup gives me satisfaction.
When he emails me that there is a problem, I tell him, maybe the next update will fix it.
Then I remove him from the usergroup until he acts up again.