vBStealth 2.0 released.

CHANGELOG:

2.0: Hack now uses timestamps: Threads and posts before the user was banned will show up, but threads and posts after the user was banned will be hidden to everyone but stealth banned users, admins and mods.

Now what one of the moderators at my boards said earlier is actually true:

"Stealth banned users can now converse among themselves. :cool:

vBStealth user 1 - can anyone see my posts???!!

vBStealth user 2 - I can see it.

Moderator - Yeah, everything's fine.

vBStealth user 1 - Ok, I thought something was wrong.

*Moderator laughs"

:D :p

Can guests see the posts of those that have been stealth banned?

[important!]

You MUST stealth ban your users from the Mod CP, just changing usergroup in the Admin CP won't add the neccessary timestamp. The same goes for unbanning stealth banned users, you MUST do that from the Mod CP as well for the same reason.
If you have upgraded, you MUST put the users back to the registered group and then stealth ban them, or it won't add the neccessary timestamp.

Read my first post thoroughly, it explains how the hack works.

OK, I've redone a few things. Guests are now able to see all stealth banned posts. This solves the problem of stealth banned users logging out and noticing something is fishy since their new posts doesn't show up. Check the attached pic to understand better how the hack works. :smoke:

Hey Martin, I have vBStealth 1.3 installed and I was wondering, would you have upgrade instructions to 2.0? Reinstalling takes too long :(

Yeah, something like this I suppose you could call upgrade instructions:

1. Put all your stealth banned users back in the registered group and take notes of who they are.
2. Run the query.
3. Do the changes to the following files: ADMIN/FUNCTIONS.PHP, MOD/INDEX.PHP, MOD/USER.PHP, FORUMDISPLAY.PHP, NEWREPLY.PHP, SEARCH.PHP. The other files haven't been changed since 1.3. The changes you're doing will be very similar to what you've done in vBStealth 1.3 so the code changes should not be hard to find.
4. Stealth ban your users from the Mod CP.

I'm afraid I can't do easier upgrade instructions than that.

For everyone who still haven't upgraded, 2.0 ownz 1.3 :banana: :p

nicely done :) however wont be using at the moment, not really got a need to :) atm prefer banned persons to show up as banned. got reason box on site for ban in their profile, so others know if break rules, (flaming only reason have banned peeps so far for...) woudl be nice though to see a hack that will remove a banned usergroup count from the total members count... (which this thread gave me idea of :D )

][high]* wooolF[RM] clicks install :)[/high]