That error says otherwise :/

This is just INSANE lol - I think Members would be mad as hell actually - And it's real banning?!?!? Yep = INSANITY - but crazy as hell - I think I'll pass on this one - but thanx for sharing LOL

Jacquii.

I changed mine to hours (as I wrote) and lessened the amount of time they could do it for. Some of the users actually came back and then went and banned themselves again. I have some silly users!

When I did it last year, the other admin complained because half the site was banned. And so was he. lol

:)

I still think it's funnier if you leave them banned!

I removed this because people were literally going insane and calling it broken.

This worked well for us. Members ended up IMing or texting me asking me to let them back in. Luckily they are all very good sports! I wish more people had fallen for it. But after everything else I pulled, they were too scared to even click the link. lol

rofl. I can just imagine my members doing the same and blamming me for it being broken when in fact they just got fooled lol

LOL - Did they not understand they were banning themselves?!?!? HAHAHAHAHA! Crazy lol

Jacquii.

This was a big success on my board. I had several users ban themselves and I also had several PMs from users saying thank you for thinking they were a "trusted user" and giving them the banning power while we were gone on our BBQ. :)

Lynne if I do your change will all banned times be changed, or just for this mod? (I know its a bit late)
Thanks!

Just for this mod. You are editing the ban.php page which was included with this hack and is the page users get sent to 'ban' someone.

The mod was fun and it was funny seeing ppl complaining in our chat box.

However, there is an issue when I am trying to unban them.

When they get 'banned', their primary group just gets changed to "COPPA users awaiting moderation", but when I search for users in that usergroup, it says there aren't any in there.

So I just can't go an unban them all easily. I now have to get them to report to me that they were banned. :s which is a pain cos there are some hundred+ ppl

Is there something I am missing? How can I mass-unban everyone?

You can see all banned users in Users > View Banned Users. The top of the list shows all users that are just temporarily banned.

What makes you think they are being moved to the COPPA group if when you go to view the users in that group you see none?

It didn't for me. It threw the users in another group I created years ago for another project. Additionally, it doesn't show me who is in that group. Meaning, I have people banned and don't know who they are. I even tried running a SQL query to see who was in my group 31. It shows no users, yet I removed another member out of the group today.

Yeah, this thing totally screwed my 3.6.8 install, but its my fault for not seeing that this was a 3.7 hack...

I just hope and pray that the unban part works and they will be able to get back on the forum. :(

When I go to view banned users, there aren't any of the users that were banned.

But when I go look at the individual user profile they say they are in the COPPA group, and I have to change that to registered user. But when I look at the COPPA group, there isn't anyone in there:S It's like..phantom user group!

Looking in the code, you can see he bans them to usergroup 8. If you deleted that group or changed it in anyway from the Default Banned Group it was defined to be by vBulletin, then I would imagine that could cause the problems you are seeing. Perhaps you deleted the group, so they are stuck in some usergroup 8 that doesn't exist.

You must have installed this hack on 3.6.x, like me. I'm screwed until these banned members somehow get in contact with me. :(

edit: And yes, I don't have a usergroup 8...

editedit: Wait! Maybe I can run a sql query looking for group 8. brblulz

editeditedit: That returned nothing either. Maybe I got everyone, or they are still in limbo...

oh, and the SQL query I used was

maybe im retarded or it was never mentioned but where does the .php file go?

I haven' t used it, but you most likely should copy it to forum root.

I am now banned...How do i unban my self...i set it to 60*$days and i am passed the time it gave me to unban

actually i am one hour passed...:'

edit ---

lol now its gone

Two questions:

1. I'm going to my domain as: http://www.mydomain.com/forum/ban.php?do=view and I'm getting a 404 error message.
2. If I find this, can I make it so that registered users can view this list?

How do you modify this to make it work in minutes or hours rather than days? Also to change the April fools text.

nm I figured it out.

This is crazy lol.. I really think this is crazy.. I am laughing here lol. I love it.

too bad I can't use it on my site ...

great work and nice idea

Where do you upload the ban.php file too?

Not long until April. Can we see who people chose to ban? That would be fantastico if it added it to their profile page.

Is that possible? Also does this work on 3.8?

very funny.

can someone please phrase the mod?
thanks.

Where do I look at the 'victim list' ?

My ban list is growing by the minute LOLOL best mod ever possibly






here it is

http://www.nwuonline.com/forums/ban.php?do=view


thank you so much for this

is there anyway to change the out come from days to hours?

I have this ready for tomorrow. I changed it to minutes instead of days (change 86400 to 60 in ban.php) and edited the restore banned users task to run every minute instead of every hour.

This should be fun!

Will this work on 3.8?

has any user got this to work on vB 3.6.0 only...if so, can you kindly post it here/changes, plz? Thx :)

When I go to the victim list, none of the banned users show up. Anybody have any idea how come?

No instructions? Really?

Because I uploaded the php file and installed the product... now what?

I don't see options for this anywhere in ACP. Now what?

nice :) i install it and change lift ban to 10 * $days

as stated in the main post...just point your URL like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/ban.php

Thank you. Somehow I read through all the posts and didn't see that. I kept seeing people ask how to view already banned users, and might have mistaken that post for one of those.

Good joke! 30 users baned and counting :-)