Not working for me

Did as explained and what you said

As soon as i did this, It made a NGG cummunity member to an NGG member even though he never posted

Disabled for now, cheers anyway for the help

thank you for update

This mod is awesome and i waited years for it!

But can i use it on my vB 3.8 ?

Nope, this is for vb 4.

There is a 3.8 version, but I cant remember if it has all the same functionality, I dont think it does.

Yep i know but the 3.8 version doesn't have the 'lurker-function' but that's exactly what i'm looking for.

Is there a chance to simply edit the variable used in your 3.8 version? So, changig 'lastactivity' with 'lastpost'.

Its not that simple (unless you dont want the restore - it would need to be disabled).

Hm there would be no need for the restore.
User didn't post within the last x days, he gets moved to a defined usergroup, done. that's it.
Reactivating should work by request only which means manually.

Nominated

Then I think what you said would work, but I wont say for certain as its a change untested by myself.

Ok, so i think i'll test it on a testforum. I let you know if it works.

Thanks for your help. :)

Edit: So, i tried to run the script and it seems to work. :up:

Well I tried this for the second time and I got the lurkers only to finally work, thanks for this great mod!

hi, members moved in the inactive group disappeared from the list of members, it's normal? thx

double-check all permissions, I would match registered members, as it takes a second visit coming back to restore normal member permissions

and somewhere theres a setting for "active members include xxxxxx groups"

I assume the usergroup is not set to display on the members list.

ok, thank you Paul

I marked as installed and nominated this modification for the MOTM :)

What is the cronjob called in the sheduled task manager? because i want to manually test some settings.

I believe its the daily cron job - I'd be careful about running that multiple times, Im not sure what else it does.

I don't see anything like this. I'm really not sure what CRON job this would link itself to.

I'm about to turn this mod ON ... :)

So, before I do a massive move to an "Inactive" new user group, has anyone had any difficulties with it using 4.1.3, particularly the option where someone does show up again and it restores them to their original user group?

Thanks for any feedback ... :)

Regards,
Doug

Tested with 4.1.2 and sometimes this mod doesn't return lurker members to the original group. "Lurker" post a new thread, post count increased, last post time changed to current time, but user still in "Lurker", even after calling cron job

Restores are not done by the cron job, they are automatically processed when you visit the site.

In the case of Lurkers, it wont actually occur until the next time the member visits a page. So if they post, and then leave, they wont get restored until they return.

Maybe I'm blind but is there the ability to make specific users, by userid, exempt from the move?

No.

There are no user exemptions, only user groups.

Great Mod.

Is there a way to have the Lurkers have a special badge, title or something that will motivate them to post?

For Lurkers you have created special group, so you can specify any title, html markup for title or even create a notification with explanation why this user is Lurker (as I did)

Unbloated member list is good. :)

I was wondering if it's possible to count forum posts AND posts in social groups/blogs? I have a lot members who are actively posting in those areas of the site, but not on the main forums. D: So it seems weird to have them in the Lurker group.

No, this cannot do that, it would need extra code writing.

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

What if the user i very active on the blogs but don't post on the forum, will they be targeted as inactive?

Inactive - No.
Lurker - Yes, as that's purely post based.

Hi, great mod and thanks for your work on it.

Just a quick question, is it possible to have a post limit option for inactive users?

for example, say an inactive user comes back to the forum, they have to make x amount of posts to be moved back into their original group? At the moment it's either they are moved straight away or the option is disabled.

Thanks,

Mark.

If I wanted to no longer run this mod and I deleted the Inactive Usergroups, what happens to the members currently within that group? Will they revert back to Registered Users?

I believe so.

That's not very comforting. :cool:

Thank you for a great mod

Hey Paul, thank you for such an excellent mod, as are all of yours :D
I know you're terribly busy with everything but I was wondering if there could be a feature request for this?

I would really like to have an exemption listing for usergroups I don't want affected by Inactive & Lurkers.

Thanks so much for any consideration :)

What exactly do you mean by this ?

Well I have a couple groups of different semi-moderator level users, and if they were inactive, then the mod picks them up and moves them, thus restricting their userlevel when they come back to visit, and forces them to post to restore original usergroup permissions.
So I wanted to have an exemption list for these groups so they wouldn't be affected by I&L.
I could have the Inactive users restore to the original usergroup, but for all other users I wanted them to still be marked Lurkers and then that wouldn't work right.
Hope that makes sense and not as convoluted as I think it reads :p

Thanks, it's just what I needed! Easy to install and setup :-)