Sorry, but there are no plans to expand this beyond the current user and IP options. :)

Ban their ip-ranges instead? You can't really use OS/Resolultion/etc to identify anyone, i can guarantee you will get many, many false positives. Your users won't like it.

Useful hack

*installed*

At another board I administrate at there has been one tale of someone finding a way around this via Opera.

Just for my knowledge.

Does the % for redirect, blank and server busy have to equal 100% ?? If not, what is the effect.??

Thanks.

No, you use what ever value you want. Each feature is independant, so one can be 5%, another 10% and another 0% if you want.

Such an excellent mod! :)

On behalf of myself and my mod squad...THANK YOU for such an excellent addition to our forum! :devious:

INSTALLED!

/me installs

hehe just waiting to get some annoying user :P

haaaaaaa omg this is soooo wrong haha. i will keep this one in mind just in case i ever need it haaa

*Arcane1 Installs

This really needs an A/V feed to monitor user frustration levels.

owww I really do have to install this.

Looks like an Absolute gem of a mod, cheers :)

the hack doesn't prompt a download. It opens up code in a browser

I just clicked on it and file was downloaded right to my desktop.....
Maybe the same has happened to you.

Right click, save target as ......

thanks! works great!

BEST HACK EVER!

Thanks!

w00t w00t, the miserable user hack is back :)

Installed, thanks a lot, I love this one, so more elegant than pure ban.

Hi, not sure if this is because of your plugin, but i installed it, tested it with a test user, and it worked, great, but, everyone on the forum is now complaining, but only 1 should be affected. I uninstalled it, and the forum, is SLOOWWWWWWWWwww.

It stays slow. Does this sound familiar and what can I do?

[Edit: Solved! Open Proxy Check is the one slowing it down]


Great Hack BTW :)

awesome mod! i just had a friend try it and he said he would hate me forever if i did that to him!! :laugh:

I get this error when trying to save phpinclude_start:

Erm, phpinclude_start ??

Must have been an older version as it was this hack. I uninstalled that from the table manually. May try to re-install it.

1000th install :) thanks

Wow, 1000 :up:

I dont know what to do after i import the hack in my plugin manager. Can somebody tell me what to do after? Do i just create a normal usergroup with the same permissions as 'registred users' but name it 'miserable users' ? And then what?

Try reading the first post .....

I'll even quote the important parts for you ...

m'kay ?

FYI: This did not work for me. IN fact, after I added the hack, I had 30 PMs very quickly and then I, myself, was not able to access my own site. LOL

Then you did something wrong. :)

How can one do something wrong when there is only one XML to install?

Good question.

It is possible for that to happen in very unusual circumstances - when you install this, the default Miserable User group is 14 (which is the MU group on my test forum) so if you happen to use that group on your forum for something then members of it would be affected until you changed the setting to your correct MU group.

Allthough it's very unlikely, I probably should change that.

I just checked and it was usergroup 17 on my forums. It was hilarious since I was trying to access my forums for over an hour and I couldn't. I did notice that the IP address was left blank, could that be it?

No. A blank ip field should have no effect (mine is blank).

you must have done something very wrong..

works perfectly for me on 3.5.2 and 3.5.3

LOL! hehe.

What folder or directory do I FTP the XML file into to have it work in my admin panel ?

First timer here with VBB ;)

You don't. In the Admin Panel you go into the Product Management (under plugins) and choose add/import - you then browse to the xml file on your local pc and install it.

Thanks :)

Will do that now :)

Problem:

All I get when logged on as a Miserable User is a 20-30s wait time, then a "The page cannot be displayed" page. Every time, no matter where I try to navigate.

I went back into the settings and reduced the percentages on everything, but still no luck. :confused: