I'm not sure if anyone has suggested this yet, but...

it would be an even more useful hack if it would also (optionally) let you make certain IP-addresses be miserable, instead of users/usergroups.

Why? Suppose you have 2 members, who live in the same building. One of 'm is an ass, the other is fine. If you only block one user, they're likely to figure out that you made *some* sort of change to his/her account. If you block their ip address(es), they'll not know why and reckon it's an ISP/routing problem instead (because that's far more likely then). :)

Can be WAY more effective, that way ^_^

i still wanna see this for vbulletin 3 ;)

would be a nice "nice to have" :)

Iam testing it right now, the frontpage isn't loading for me. absolutly great! :)

I have the IP based misery working in my forums. In fact I have applied it to most of the anonymizers and a few users. It is working like a charm. But I never did an Admin CP interface for it and I enter the information into an array of IP addresses in the php source.

I am not sure if this would interest anyone. I suppose I can make an Admin CP interface for it as well. :)

Would be nice. If you could send it to me I could also do it for vB3, but that's up to you :)

WOW! I don't have a lot of user on my site yet, but this is NICE. A real good way to deal with an annoying user.

Thanks!!

After playing around a bit, I installed this in VB3... it wasn't a full hack though. I just added the miserable code to global.php and then added the miserable column to the user table.

To make it work you have to run the query manually for each user that you want as miserable.

Here's my implementation:

Open miserable.txt and run the query
Apply the first modification to global.php ONLY and upload it

For each username you want miserable, run this query

update user SET miserable="1" WHERE username="xxx";

replace xxx with username

Not the cleanest hack in the world but we were desperate for it, :P

djnoz, it can be done a lot easier than that on vB3 :)

For this to be applied on a vB3 board, you really should just make a new (secondary) usergroup called "Miserable Users", make it non-public and put people in that group (along with their normal group, ie. the Miserable usergroup has no additional permissions anywhere, it's just important to note the usergroupid). Then in global.php, put the Miserable code and make it dependant on the usergroupid of the Miserable usergroup, check for it in $bbuserinfo[usergroups] (iirc)

Awsome Hack. I had so much fun watching our trouble makers try to figure out what is worng.

How can I dial this down a bit?