I'm having the same problem but, humbly I admit, I don't understand your answer. Can you give a step by step for disabling all other users of global_start? Thanks!

diregard - I figured it out! this rocks!

One thing to watch out for, I have a private forum setup but on installation of Miserable users, in testing if I assigned a user to be in the new 'miserable users' usergroup, the user was able to see a forum that was marked Private and read the messages within. Otherwise the hack works great, thanks!

I rebuilt forum information in Update Counters and then had to edit the Forum Permissions for the Private forum, setting 'miserable users' usergroup to "All No".

This is more an issue with adding new usergroups in vbulletin than the miserable users hack itself.

*installed

Hehe, I even tested it on myself. Works great!

*installed

This is a very usefull Plug Inn, but to make it perfect, would be nice to link the lucky user with the cookie on AE detector so if the user takes a new username will get miserable status again...
Just a tought.
Regards...:banana:

You can specify an IP address as well as a username - so if they are trying to use a different username from the the same IP address - you've got them covered both ways. No need to link AE detector ->which is another nice mod that I use...

Yes, but the problem here is too many dynamic IP's and guys who use cable I get a bunch of people sharing IP's using cable.
What I do now is to detect the new user with AE detector and apply the miserable status..
Regards...

You would need to ask the author of the AE hack to add the ability to move detected users to another usergroup.

Paul,

I think I speak for all of us when I say this mod will not be complete until we can tap into their webcams and see the frustration on their faces. I'll be waiting for your response.

Thanks,

CH

P.S. Seriously, you're evil and I like it. Keep on, keepin' on!

Sorry if it's been asked, or if it is too stupid a question to have been asked previously :) But does this product have any down-side on server load or any other drawbacks?

No it doesn't (and I think it's been asked before :)).

I've been eyeing this hack for a couple of months now, but with a fairly new forum, I didn't have a need for it until yesterday. Some A** Hole has been spamming away on my forum. In a way I had it coming because I used a link in my sig on his board, but I did it professionally w/o mentioning my site in my post. I just contributed to the community and left a sig with a link for those interested. The next day he retaliates with posts totally promoting his forum while attempting to put mine down. I of course would have been tolerant if left a sig and contributed to my forum, but his post are totally self promoting.

Anyway thanks for the hack, where do I contribute?;)

Needed this for the first time tonight! Just installed :D Thanks for your hard work :banana:

Will it work in the Future with vBulletin 3.6 ?

lmao my users are now owned

I can not get it to work on usergroups, but it does work on IP.. what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

UPDATE... I used this hack.. and the person is still posting.. god knows how.. I tried it on my own account and I had to change it back real quick.. GRRR

They are obviously very patient and persistant.

hey Paul will this hack work on version 3.0.6?

if not is their a version of this hack for 3.0.6?

There is a 3.0.x version by Kirafire, it's listed in the similar threads at the bottom of the page.

thanx man.

Paul, You have this for 3.6 yet?:surprised:

This should work "as is" in 3.6.

love this! one question tho...
since I'm periodically changing the %'s for the various events and also changing one particular person from being a member of this usergroup to another... that person isn't getting an email from the forum telling him/her that he/she has been added to the miserable usergroup is he/she?

Standard vbulletin does not send e-mails when you change a members usergroup.

*whew* for some reason I thought it did... when you changed or added them to one.

Is there a hack for that, though? Been looking actually and didn't see anything.

BTW - this Hack is the greatest thing for crap posters ever. I don't have any issues yet, but I have my finger over the install button for this one when the day comes!! :D

To the author: I LOVE this hack!!:banana:

To the rest of you: It's supposed to save time so that YOU are not wasting time chasing idiots
However if you DO have some extra time to waste on that "special" idiot try alternating bertween miserable user and the "tachy goes to Coventry" thing ... some days your board will be running fine and fast! Then move him back:devious:

Loaded this yesterday and tried it out on a fake user.

IT WORKED PERFECT!!

thank you :banana:

How would I create a hidden usergroup, so members wouldn't see that they're now part of a group called "miserable"?

Edit the group properties and set the option "Viewable on Show Groups" to no.

We will test and double check this for you tomorrow Paul :)

Paul I'm guessing that this works with 3.6 B3 because when we tested it we couldn't even log in :confused:

All we got was a message saying "can?t open the page http://www.website.com/forum/index.php. The error was: ?lost network connection" :bunny:

I don't think MU could cause that to happen.

Well it happened immediately after assigning MU to the member, and it went away immediately after we took it off, so cool... looks like there's a new feature under 3.6 :bunny:

:p

I'm also curious as to whether or not this will work in the final release version of 3.6...

I see no reason why not, but there will be a 3.6 release as well.

thanks Paul M. it's very excellent mod for trolls, i pressed install and i will enjoy it.
i tested it and it runs fine! i have many trolls maybe it will heal them :cool:

best mod ever!