I see this has been requested several times, but I'm throwing my hat in the ring, so to speak.

I REALLY need the ability for violators to be AUTOMATICALLY put in a moderated (specified) user group, IF the original or other userid is NOT banned.

IF any of the other userids are BANNED, then I definitely want the violator automatically BANNED as well.

THAT would save me a TON of grief from a few flaming idiots who just won't give up.

Thanks so much for this great hack which works great on my 3.6 forum.

you can say that again

i realy need that

Okay. I'm about ready to PAY someone to do this enhancement. How much would it take? Seriously.

Do you really have that much duplicate accounts?

I have vB 3.6. I uninstalled the product and re-uploaded it, then customized the settings in the AdminCP. None of the options work... it doesn't PM me, it doesn't create a post, nothing. Yes, I have filled out all the forums right. I've triple-checked them. I have my username as the reporting username, and also have my username as the one to notify. I have the right forum ID for posting... still nothing.

Maybe it conflicts with something else that I have installed.

Ryan

And with it installed you are testing by logging into multiple accounts ensuring that you are not in the exception list?

I have one guy who continuously reregisters under new names--different IPs of course. The AE is tripped, but it takes us sometimes an hour or two before myself or one of my mods gets around to banning the twit.

It's become a game to him. This happens everyone once in a while. It's a total and complete waste of time dealing with them.

Yes, the fields for exempt usergroups and userids are blank. I have a test account that I log in with, then I log out and back into my admin account. No post is created and no IM is sent.

On my 3.5.4 board I immediately get a PM and a new post in a designated forum.

If a board has re-assigned its users to new userids, then this plugin tracks both the old ID and the new ID (assuming it was installed on the board with the old ID's)? In this case, a false positive can be generated because the original ID is no longer the same person as the new userID? And if so, is there a way to flush the old tracking cookies from the server, (...as opposed to telling all users to wipe their own cookies)? Which I guess means losing all tracking data up to that point, right?

Can I ask what precisely is stored in the cookie?

And how does the cookie change if another account is detected?

How does AED parse the cookie?

What is stored in variable {1}, the first account or the next detected account?

p.s., I think this is a GREAT plug-in. We have several problem accounts that are serial offenders.