for some reason it has stopped working any ideas?

Things don't just stop working, what changes have you made to your set-up.

Thanks for this superb mod Paul M. I installed it and tested it on a couple of volunteers, they hated every second of forum use today. This will work out superb against people we don't want coming back. Keep up the good work.

great hack Paul M!

had it not been because of the logouthash parameter here:

http://domain.com/forums/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=2a7c27791270a72adea2dd8c9f6d96c0

i would have redirected my miserable users to the logout function just to piss them off even more. :devious:

Brilliant! I am definitely installing this! :)

Installed, with intent of driving away undesirables, until I started questioning the ethics of it... still installed, just unsure of what to use it for

there is a flaw to this hack that should be addressed.

Even the owner of the board can be put into this usergroup and therefore be banned from his own board.

Just playing around, One of my admins has done this.

Um, that's not a flaw. Why would you ban the owner of the board by putting him in the miserable users user group? That sounds a lot more like unintelligence more than anything to me.

Not a flaw, just not a very bright thing to do - you could just as easily put them in the banned group, but that's not a flaw in vBulletin .....

unintelligent ???? Because we found what we think is a possible flaw????
The senrio I described was goofing around tp see if it could be done.
It's unintelligent to think it can't be done because you don't think someone should do it.



Here let me explain it to you.
Lets say you have a few admins on your site. You get into an arguement with one of them.. He decides he wants to get even with you or whatever.. He puts you in that usergroup.


As a default. The vbulletin script is built so the owner and whomever you wish can not be deleted. This is done through an addition to a PHP file.

This hack hasn't quite circumvented the defult, but has put a huge damper on it