This is a slick hack. Very useful :)

I love it! One thing though. Why are they converted to usergroupid 9 as opposed to 8 (the default bangroup)? I'm assuming your bangroup is 9 but most people's are 8. The one I'm using is 10 actually, but that's custom. :D

Thank you guys. :)

Zelda-King, I thought 9 was the standard usergroup ID for banned users. :confused:

Yea, 8 is the standard, but they also may be 10, 11, 9349853, etc. ;)

Better make that a variable to edit in the config. ;)

I'll install this once I am able to log into my FTP... damn, it's going tooooo sloooooow.

I hate when that happens.
Its probably some wanna-be-hacker pingin your host's IP.

lol i would install this but I got a few members who get a kick out of doing this and and I just love making them look like idiots and it might ban those who don't want to be banned

We could think up some extra phrases here that people might actually use. I had fun thinking up a few last night. :D

Usergroupid 9. I don't have one. It was a custom usergroup which I've deleted. The hack therefore just set users to usergroup 4 (COPPA/Users Awaiting Moderation).

The problem with the usergroup 'Banned by Moderators' is it's created when a moderator first bans. If you've already added usergroups prior to that then the usergroupid for it will be different. If you don't add any usergroups then it should be 8. At least I think that's how it works.

Just amazing zzed ;)!

This is a Great hack. personally i won;t use it but I love it!! LOL

When I post only one word of a 'ban phrase' I get the attached error. Everything seems to still function normally, and the user isn't banned without saying the rest of it but I get the error come up briefly nevertheless.

For example, if a ban sentence is "I'm leaving" and I post the word 'leaving' in a different context, there's that error.

One word is enough to make the post require farewell.php. Isn't there a way of making it not do that unless all criteria are met for an autoban?