Oh yes I saw that in the notes of the mod, thank you a lot my friend!!!

Nice MOD, thanks

Whoo hoo! Perfect!

Another fine hack Sir. <3 Thanks

BY FAR one of my favorite "hacks". Drives folks bananas, and they typically think the site just has something wrong. Great for the PITA or spammer wanna-be members, who don't add any value or stir up the pot.

thanks :)

Lol... i've been avoiding this mod for too long.

Gonna install it now - it's just too evil not to....

OMG - thats horrible

I LOVE IT

Request a way to set an IP has miserable.

You can...

How.....

Edit: The blind can see.

we had this in 3.6.x so are there no changes in the hack for the current release ?

I dont think so.

title: perfect.

thank you, sir.

marked as installed.

Does this hack cause any httpd load issues? I installed this just two days ago and have been having server issues since.

No.

o_O Exelent mod. I install!!!!

absolutely one of the BEST mods ever!! Thanks Paul M. :)

wow this will going to be fun lol... -Devil Laugh-

Installed the hack on 3.7.2 with no problems.
It runs perfectly and several tests using dupe accounts shows that this is not only customizable for optimal performance, but it's freaking hilarious!

*cough*

I mean, it has proven a extraordinarily useful tool in handling those members who know how to push just enough to consistently irritate or manipulate the staff and/or community but haven't done anything that we can specifically BAN them for.

This hack totally allows the moderating staff to continue doing things as they always have done but allows the administrative staff the ability to alleviate the stress and burnout caused after having to fight back and forth with trolls.

And possibly a suggestion to other admins installing this hack.. on both my forums we've kept the existence of this mod hidden from the community - even from our Super Moderators. Only the Admins know of it and have ability to move members into the usergroup so the effectiveness of the mod is superb. The purpose for this is obvious but easily missed at first. If the community doesn't know of the hack, then it's not feasible that a troll would choose to ignore it.
Also- if the rest of your staff (smods, mods, etc) are not aware of the hack, then it's not likely that they'll leak the information out - either by accident or as a warning/threat or by discussing staff process after leaving their staff position.

Sorry for the tl;dr - but this hack impressed me and my admin staff.

Thanks so much for such an excellent - EXCELLENT hack. Not only is it useful and functional, it was obviously created by someone who knows the ~~dark side of the forums~~.

man this is the best shit i redirect them to a porn site also can you change the percentages to what u want?

Thank you.

okay I love this hack but all my users are experiencing load issues. Could this hack cause that?
I dont want to get rid of it:-(

No, it cannot cause that (unless you have somehow set them all as miserable ....).

installed.

great mod, thanks

I have one user set to miserable users.
Whenever he logs in I get this message.

"MySQL server has gone away"
I have exactly the same issue, any hint on this ?

I would say you have a very low mysql timeout, so the connection is timing out before the MU timeout.

See above - tho you post does not actually say if you mean with this mod, or just in general.

Sorry about that but, yes, it happens the same way with this mod and not in general.

Is there a parameter we can change to get rid of this problem ?

Either set this mods response time lower, or increase the mysql timeout value.

That worked. My hoster uses a 20 second mysql timeout.
I just adusted the value for the mix. and max. responsetime ad that did the trick.

Thank`s 4 support !
This usergroup rocks...( well, it depends on the point of view ;) )

I just installed it. It does what it's supposed to do however when users do get through to the forums they see everything that is normally hidden to them (i.e. hidden Admin and Mod forums, etc.) and they can even post in such forums.

I checked all the permissions and can't see anything that doesn't look right. What am I missing?

Thanks.

Set the forum permissions for that usergroup properly.

You mean the forum permissions for the Miserable Users usergroup? Yeah, I did that. I have everything set to No except for Can View Forum, Can View Thread Content, Can View Others' Threads, Can Search Forums, Can Post Threads, Can Reply to Own Threads, Can Reply to Others' Threads, Can Rate Threads, Can View Who's Online, Can View Others' Profile Pictures, Can Use Reputation, Viewable on the Memberlist, and This Usergroup is not a 'Banned' Group. Everything else is set to No.

Is there something else that I am missing somewhere?

Thanks.

Those are not the detailed forum/usergroup permissions.

ACP > Forums & Moderators > Forum Permissions

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood.

Anyway, those were all set to No by default to begin with. I just checked and verified that they are still all set to No.

I had this installed and had the same issues- load increased - as well as database errors I was getting- when I added more than 1 person it ballooned... removed it and load issues and errors cut dramatically... good idea but can't see using it again.

This cannot cause database errors, it doesnt even access the database.

For that matter it cannot cause big load issues either, its little more than 30 lines of basic php - if that cause you problems then you have a major server issue. :)

+1!

Have a member or 2 in mind for this:D