Thanks, but...

It is coded to post a new thread.

Most of the info you need is in the thread title. that is why it can not add a reply to a current thread.

I switched from the pm to the forum thread mode on this hack for the same reasons. It works great.

Installed. Checking it out now. Thank you.

I have been using this hack with great success for a long time, but lately I am seeing false positives that it is not even funny anymore. Anyone else seeing this? I have users on different continents using differnet ISPs and that haver never ever met being reported as having multiple accounts with each other.

Sounds like you might have installed another hack that could be interfering with this. I would look in that direction and see if maybe that could be the problem.

OMG! I have this issue lately too :eek:

Given how this works, I would say thats not possible.

More likely is that they are using proxy servers to access your forum, so appear to be miles apart when in reality they are not - thats something this is good at catching.

Like Paul said, not possible. There is no database back-end to this - it works totally off cookies which are machine specific (unless you use some kind of service where cookies may not be stored on the local machine).

Dose this hack work with 3.7.0 RC 4 ?

Yes it works just fine for me with RC4... No problems :up:

Anyone tried on vb3.7 gold?

RC and Gold are not that big of a difference, it should work.

seems to work yeah (gold)

of course. still get my pm notifications )

I can attest that at times this modification has produced false positives. On a forum I previously ran I had a few instances of this happening. In one case the two accounts being reported by AE Detector were a staff member's account and some spammer account that had been banned. Since the spammer account was banned and neither myself or the other staff member ever logged in as the spammer, there is no way AE Detector should have noticed a problem. Yet it did. I will admit it did not happen often but I have seen a few instances.

Since installing AE Detector on my latest forum a few months ago, I have not had any problems with false positives. :)

are these with ip checking turned on in the settings? that's where i got the false positives from; otherwise, it's just checking for it's cookie.

I'd be happy to get an occasional false positive. Since we've gotten no notices in a year, we're all convinced it's not working. Maybe I'll try turning on the IP thingie.

edit: On looking, I see no option for IP checking.?

you know what? i'm confusing it with the multiple registration hack, as i use them together...sorry!

currently it doesnt ignore some users in 3.7 so admin etc can be reported also..

ive had problems in the past with false reporting, but it was after i did some work on the forum that changed the user number. if this is something that you could have done, i think its addressed in the beggining of this thread. you have to rename the cookie, or something like that. i just waited it out and as the users cleaned up there puters, it wasnt an issue anymore.

has anybody else had this problem?

I wasn't sure of exactly what that meant, as it's phrased oddly. But I know we tried to enable reporting of admins and super mods just as a test, and were unable to trigger it.

are you saying that you didnt exclude admins and supermods from being reported, and it didnt report them?

i hope somebody pics this up and updates it to 3.7.0. its become a most invaluable tool.

Right. That seemed the easiest way to test it, since we all have second normal-user accounts.

It is working for me on 3.7.0, although it did something strange this morning

It tripped with the same person, same username, same userid???

strange

I think the time has come for a new update. most of us are using VB 3.7 .
swamp it happened to me on my forum.

It seems like the login detector is not working on VB 3.7

It's working fine for me on 3.7.

Any word on whether or not this will be updated to 3.7?

It seems to be working for some, but not others.

It randomly stopped working.

mine too, i tried re-installing and no luck. i'm on 3.6.8

/CRY!!!

Im on 3.7 and it worked for a long time donno what happened I HATE IT

Can anyone fix this?

fix what? if you completely re-installed it after the upgrade to 3.7.0 Gold, it works fine.

i really need this for 3.7.0 please

Do you know if re-installing the MA Registration Prevention mod will make that one work with 3.7 too? This and that one are the last mods I'm waiting on to make sure they work in 3.7 before I upgrade. :)

Does this mod work in 3.7?

Edit: Sorry, repeat question.

Whats the answer tho? 3.7? Yay or nay? :)

How many times can the same question be asked? Don't you guys believe in reading before posting?

I've updated one of my boards to 3.7. It works fine there. My other, still on 3.6.8, it doesn't work, presumably because some other mod is interfering with it(?).

So the answer is, yes, it can work with 3.7. But it may not, and there's no real easy way to test it.

Heh, sorry, i should know better.

Thanks for the reply Videx.

Im going to try it anyway!

:)

Both hacks work on vb 3.7.0 Gold, just be sure to re-install from scratch.

Thank you. :) I suppose there's nothing to do now but try it and hope there are no problems. :o