I see this has been requested several times, but I'm throwing my hat in the ring, so to speak.

I REALLY need the ability for violators to be AUTOMATICALLY put in a moderated (specified) user group, IF the original or other userid is NOT banned.

IF any of the other userids are BANNED, then I definitely want the violator automatically BANNED as well.

THAT would save me a TON of grief from a few flaming idiots who just won't give up.

Thanks so much for this great hack which works great on my 3.6 forum.

you can say that again

i realy need that

Okay. I'm about ready to PAY someone to do this enhancement. How much would it take? Seriously.

Do you really have that much duplicate accounts?

I have vB 3.6. I uninstalled the product and re-uploaded it, then customized the settings in the AdminCP. None of the options work... it doesn't PM me, it doesn't create a post, nothing. Yes, I have filled out all the forums right. I've triple-checked them. I have my username as the reporting username, and also have my username as the one to notify. I have the right forum ID for posting... still nothing.

Maybe it conflicts with something else that I have installed.

Ryan

And with it installed you are testing by logging into multiple accounts ensuring that you are not in the exception list?

I have one guy who continuously reregisters under new names--different IPs of course. The AE is tripped, but it takes us sometimes an hour or two before myself or one of my mods gets around to banning the twit.

It's become a game to him. This happens everyone once in a while. It's a total and complete waste of time dealing with them.

Yes, the fields for exempt usergroups and userids are blank. I have a test account that I log in with, then I log out and back into my admin account. No post is created and no IM is sent.

On my 3.5.4 board I immediately get a PM and a new post in a designated forum.

If a board has re-assigned its users to new userids, then this plugin tracks both the old ID and the new ID (assuming it was installed on the board with the old ID's)? In this case, a false positive can be generated because the original ID is no longer the same person as the new userID? And if so, is there a way to flush the old tracking cookies from the server, (...as opposed to telling all users to wipe their own cookies)? Which I guess means losing all tracking data up to that point, right?

Can I ask what precisely is stored in the cookie?

And how does the cookie change if another account is detected?

How does AED parse the cookie?

What is stored in variable {1}, the first account or the next detected account?

p.s., I think this is a GREAT plug-in. We have several problem accounts that are serial offenders.

All that is stored in the cookies are userids; if your userids change, then you will have a problem with it tripping on all your users.

ok i had this on my board, my board went down had to redo the whole thing reinstalled this, and now everyone is tripping, but i redid the db also so what can i do to fix this need this working asap if you can help

thanks
CF

It will only go off if,

the persons are using the same computer,
The persons have not deleted thier cookies!,

Failing that thier not the same persons

I've also tried this on 3.6 and it doesn't seem to be working. I logged on a completely different computer and created two accounts and successfully logged into both.

I installed this in my test site and longged in as two different users and nothing happened. It should have tripped and reported then to my PM, email and posted in the forum I specified and it does not do any of these.

I am running vB 3.6.1. Does this work with this version?

I think I have this working now.

Compatible with 3.6.1?

3.6 version here

I'm having the same problem, some of my USERID's changed and now im getting a constant stream of "tripped accounts" when i only had a few each day before my board was reinstalled.

Is there a way i can reinstall this plugin but maybe change the name of the cookie that AE Detector sends out that way it won't read the old cookies on people's computers?

If your userids changed; then my only suggestion would be to modify the name of the cookie in the plugin code itself.

If for some reason your userids change - weather you reinstalled, started over or whatever; the best way to avoid getting false reports based on the users old userid is to edit the name of the cookie used by the AE Detector:

In Plugin Manager under the login_verify_success section edit the AE Detector: Login checker plug-in code.

Change each instance of "IDstack" to some new name for the cookie to be used. There are four of them all in the first 21 or so lines of the code.

1. if(isset($_COOKIE['IDstack']))
2. $idstack = $_COOKIE['IDstack'];
3. setcookie("IDstack", $idstack, time()+10368000, "/");
4. setcookie("IDstack", $idstack, time()+10368000, "/");

thank you very much

thanks for that i think that solved the problem, also what is the template name for the pm that is sent or the post that is created i want to edit it...but i cannot seem to find the template and i have looked through them all must be missing it...lol

Question: if there any two users detected, will the report send only once or every time when this users will do the login?

Only once assuming they dont clear their cookies in between reports.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks!!!!

I'll catch spammers now. Lots of people are making double accounts in my forum.

I hope this will help me out.

thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks agaaaaaaaaain!

Back in January - this stopped working for me. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing, but no luck. Is there something I can look at to fix it?

I cant figure out how to change how far it will look back in posts. It isnt in the setting in the admincp. Any suggestions?

I have installed this, and changed the settings to both send a PM to a particular admin and also to post a thread in a particular forum.
But it doesnt seem to work. Do we need to do any other changes anywhere else?? Please advice.

this doesnt look into the posts to detect aliases... it only searches for people who LOGIN using same pc with two different ids.

I've only found other mods could interfere with this mod; but I am not sure which ones. I did see that the "only post images/links after XXX posts" could interfere with it.

yup - sorry for the long delay on this - but that's what caused it!

I might finally have reason to upgrade from 2.x to 3.x. The "who this user might be hack" on 2.x was a life saver when detecting trolls. While this is not the same hack it will help.

cool hack thanks

Works on 3.6.7?

Thanks

Its working for me

Great hack - it's already nailed a few members. A couple of spammers, and a couple of members who had multiple accounts.

Questions: Since I may have to confront some people that they are in violation of the rules (having more than one account, BSing me, etc.) how can I prove this? Where exactly is the evidence stored? If I'm going to bust someone on this, I have to be 110% sure.

Also, the AE detector indicated that one user has three accounts, but they've been posting with different IP addresses (same country though). Is this like one guy using different dial-up/DSL connections from the same computer?

That's what I've always assumed (like using an AOL account to connect, and a Comcast account to connect, but on the same computer/browser). If this is wrong I'd like to know too.

Probably dialup or some AOL proxy account; cookies are computer specific and do not take IP addresses into account.

But if cookies are cleared when the user logs off and then logs on, how does this plugin detect the user having multiple accounts? This is what I need to know. Thanks!