You can always create a maintenance account that is used for this kind of plugins / scripts. I created myself a user named "bot" and I assigned its id as the "Userid of who PM sender / Alert poster". This way, all the PMs and threads are originated by it... and not by me :)

Do you want to know the current IP of the user or a history of all IPs used by the user (or users)?

Hello MPDev, the current IP from where the user is logging in that moment.

Thanks for your interest. A really good hack :)

Any good reason why I'm not getting any hits with this after a week? Install and config is very straight forward, forum is active enough that I'd expect something, and I've tested it out with a couple accounts. Nadda.

(Finally got a hit today. Works great!)

here is what it show's me when it get's a hit....... Just showin that it does work........

Hi,

We have ran into issues with this script when using the vb_datastore function of vBulletin. The site simply draws a blank white page and to fix it we must restart apache with plugins disabled.

Are you sure it is this mod that is causing the problem? We don't direct use the vb_datastore table for anything in our plugin.

very usefull addition to vB

you're right about that.........now

we just had a little tension on our board after my IP started coinciding with all the known Trolls

:cross-eyed:

ok i have updated this with a couple more features and a possible fix for the IP problem that was posted earlier.

I have added the ability to post a reply to a thread if the user has already tripped a detection thread. How i get the thread id is it sets another cookie with the threadid and posts the reply to that thread.

going to send my updated code to MPDev for him to review and then possibly update the thread with the updated code.