Paul can you please upgrade this so as to be able to give user's id to whom the mod to be applied.

Just giving an ip does no satisfy complete as user can very easily changing ip in a minute with various methods.

Cn you please provide an update for he mod with this option?

userids are not necessary, you create your MU group and add any users to it as a secondary group.

best hack ever !

We tried this hack. It appeared to cause the "Miserable User" problem for many members that were not in that group. We un-installed it. Thanks for the effort, though.

vBulletin 4,1.4

Im afraid that could only happen if you did something wrong, or missed a step.

Never happened to me sth like that!

I almost replied that, but I was afraid he'd ask "What could I have done wrong?". And I swear I can't imagine any way to accomplish that with this mod.

More likely, the server/internet hiccuped just as they were testing it. I mean, he didn't say "one or two members", he said "many members".

That's what I call a troll mod. Haha :D

Tagged for later, I will discuss installing this with my fellow admins.

Sorry, I am a beginner. Where exactly do you set the value of the usergroup number in the plug-in ?

As it says ;

(in your Admin Control Panel).

If you're a beginner, presumably with a new board, then you really shouldn't be adding a bunch of modifications. Especially one like this where you likely won't need to use it for years. Wait until you've learned more about how the stock vbulletin works, and only add mods you really need.

Just installed in 4.1.5pl1
Working perfectly
Thank you for this mod!!

Love it and know who i'll add too ;)

Okay, I feel really stupid for questioning myself and having to ask this, and I know what the answer already is. But, I've got some dingleberry that I've hit with the "miserable user" tag and he claims he's written a script to circumvent him. And the while he double posts like crazy due to the throttling.

I'm not missing something here, am I? It's impossible for someone to circumvent this outside of creating a new account, right? There is no scenario I can dream up where it would be possible to get around this but he's hell bent in claiming he has all the while calling me every name in the book.

Again, sorry for the stupid question. :)

Why would you tell anyone that you stuck him into this group? Why not just ban him?
I thought the point behind this is to silently drive them away.

And well, there should be an easy way... logging out. Your guests probably are not in the miserable user group.

roflchu.

Use the banhammer on him. Problem solved :P

If he ever creates a new account, you can always look up its IP and identify him. But, if he's using a proxy to do so...that's another story.

Anyway, it's all part of administrating a forum.

He is lying.

It's impossible to circumvent while logged in as the affected user.

Like I said, I felt stupid asking.

Here is a thread he made (twice, by the way, because of the mod :)) after I told him it was impossible for him to get around it, called him a liar, and one of my moderators thread banned him for being annoying:

Thread banned only? My advice: he's a troll. Remove him from your forums.

Don't feed the trolls. People I've put in the miserable users group I did so without telling them or posting it publicly. If they have no reason to believe you are the cause of their problems, they are more like to go away.

Well, I'm only keeping him around the lulz now. It's really hard to describe just how ridiculous this guy is. I set him up with the perfect opportunity to prove his skillz and set miserable user to give him an error 100% of the time. I told him to post with his original account (he's made a new one this morning) but of course he says he's not going to post just to appease my ego.

Anyway, thanks for the mod. Great stuff.

Just an FYI concerning the fact that MU works best when the user doesn't know it's happening.

There's an additional tool now - User Punishment by BOP5 - which can be set to add x seconds page load delay, and these can be set to x*infraction points. I make it a point to tell people that their infraction point gives them a 4 second delay until expiration. It's not the random thing like MU, and there's no need to keep it secret like MU.

I still find MU useful for immediately cooling off hotheads. But that's just meant to give staff time to discuss an infraction.

This is Troll-bane. Hah hah haaaaaa LOL

Nothing works better to get rid of those pesky PITA's. Just don't turn it on too strong to make it obvious.

I use the IP option as well.

Thank you

Good Idea ;-)

Nice

Just love it and installed it. Just trying it, i am annoyed.

One quick question. Is it ok to set the redirect to /index.php without setting a loop?

No, never redirect back to the site, otherwise it *will* loop.

I have a user on my forum who likes to troll and report copyrighted content to whatever sites it came from, its hard too keep up on all the posts so it does happen. this guys is an A$$hole and i have banned him many times even by ip. i always end up figuring out who he is, maybe now i can make him not want to even bother with the forum. thanks for this mod i hope it makes it very unpleasant for his guy

Isn't this addon an insult to professionalism? I mean, you either ban or warn users right? But to play such IMHO childish games surely only tempts retaliation? Wouldn't it be better to spend time on the content of your site and making more friends, less enemies? Is it OK to ask? Does my question break the forum / adminstrator's rules? I hope not, I think my questions are very valid. Also, does vB.org use this script. If it does, I think other forum software houses would love to know. Maybe it could be renamed to "miserable adminstrators"?

Although some here seem to express a childish glee at the prospect, I think most of us use it for far more serious reasons. We've used it maybe 3-4 times in as many years, for users that really just needed to calm down, and banning or infracting wouldn't have that effect. I think we may have had to eventually ban them anyway so I can't speak to the long term effectiveness of the process. But there was nothing childish about our use of it.

Now that we have the ability to simply add a page load delay, we may never use MU again, I don't know.

No.

No.

Updated: This is now available for the 4.1.x series of vBulletin only.

Thank you very much Paul.

Updated

Very Nice

Tar ..thanks duck

v4.1.7.0 have sum problem when i install the latest version my site get slow loading and server busy it's working fine in v4.1.0

There is no difference between them, other than the version number, so your issue must lie elsewhere.

Well I down loaded this ages ago but acually found the need to install it this morning We have a sexual predator ( lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under the age of 12)that doesn't like the fact his picture is on the site. this is just perfect I had banned him once and he has come back with another profile (both facebook connect) but now my members want to play with him:D so this should crip him up just enough to make it fun without him screwing up a lot of the forum.

thanks for the update,

i update the product from v4.1.0 to v4.1.7.0
i have a problem when opening the forum pages its stuck in the middle

i need the v4.1.0 please

Please read post #155.

Off topic posts removed. This is a support thread for the MU modification, not a place to discuss disputes you may have with people.

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Which part of OFF TOPIC did you fail to understand.
Post again about it in here and you will get suspended from the site.