Miserable Users.
 

The ever popular "miserable users" hack for vb 3.7. Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. This version is based on the vb 3.6 version. Credit to Zzed for the original idea.

When classed as miserable, a member suffers ;

1. Slow response (time delay) on every page (20 to 60 seconds default).
2. A chance they will get the "server busy" message (50% by default).
3. A chance that no search facilities will be available (75% by default).
4. A chance they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).
5. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).
6. Post flood limit increased by a defined factor (10 times by default).
7. If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.

Note: All the above options are set in the vBulletin Options.

To install this hack simply download the xml file to your pc and then import it into vbulletin as a product - then create your 'miserable users' usergroup and set the value of this group, and your preferred other settings, in the hacks settings area (vBulletin Oprions > Miserable Users). To make a member suffer just edit their profile to add them to the miserable users group (it will work as either the primary group or as a secondary group).

Upgrade from 3.6
If you upgraded your forum with the 3.6 version installed then it will continue to work, no need to upgrade - otherwise install this in the normal manner.


History:

v3.7.001 - Initial vB 3.7 version.
v3.7.002 : Installation Code Updated.

Good job!

Installed!

I'm gonna install this real soon. Thanks!

I think I'll upgrade my live site in my week off for Christmas!

Thanks for the update Paul.

This is such a great mod! LOL

LOL just tested...
no need to ban users anymore with this ^_^

thank you for released !

Thanks, Glad to see this continued as well :) Thanks.

This hack dosent work with version 3.68

That'll be why it's in the 3.7 section then. ;)

It's normal, you are in 3.7 mod section :p

Thanks, I upgrade ;)

Fantastic! Thanks for the update, Paul. :D

First time user of this mod...Eager to try it out. :D Thanks, Paul. :)

Can this mod or any of its predecessors give a false ban message?

You could probably adapt it to (using the redirect option).

Thank you for updating this for 3.7. It is our favorite vB hack of all time. Great job!

BTW- we used to be addicted to Dr. Pepper too. We're cured now :p

It's very good ------------ but i'm not very sure how to set the IP address
for example, if i want to Miserable IP 202.157.67.0 - 202.157.67.255, i should type 202.157.67. or 202.157.67 or 202.157.67.*?

As the option says ;

Partial ip ranges are possible (do not enter any trailing dots)

Is there anyway to use the redirection option to make them to go a specific page within vb? Everytime I try to do that is goes into a infinite loop and then times out.

Nope, you cannot do that since as you say, you are creating a loop.

That's what I thought, oh well still one of my most fav mods.

Does this mod create a server load?

It seems that since I installed it, my server load has shot up from 0.02-0.04 range to 0.6- 0.9 or higher. I run both accounts on this dedicated box. I only have 30 - 100 users at any time.

Thanks for thoughts

Installed (marked too)

Thanks for having updated this ever popular mod to vB 3.7 :up:

top mod, does Mutley's laugh.

Installed. I used this hack for the 3.6 series and one of my admins did not know what it was used for because I did not let him know right away, so he set this usergroup as his secondary group....WOW. I never heard the end of it. At first, my webhost and I could not figure out why he could not view the forums until I looked at his info through the admin panel and saw this was checked. My webhost and I were laughing so hard at him, my co-admin that did this to himself, left the MSN chat, furious. ROFL

Needless to say, I did not hear from him for a few days. :D

Nice mod. Sоme of my forum visitors really need it :)

Is it safe to use "delay" option? If php is in FCGI mode, miserable user can lock all php processes, if try to open 10 pages at once.

Question. If I add a user to miserable through additional usergroup will that work? Or do i need to remove member from registered user and make miserable usergroup primary? Does it matter?

The answer is in the nice red note on the main post ;

Marked as installed..used from vB 3.6 to nwe vB 3.7.. :)
Works great.

Thanks Paul. I figured everything out.

for some reason it['s not working on my 3.7.1 or the previous 3.7.0. Not sure what happened. I have a test account it it doesn't do what it did before, by delaying, etc.. It just goes right on through everytime.

any ideas, let me know. In the meantime, I'll check some other things. Thanks.

ok, in case others have the same problem, I found out the Usergroup ID was wrong! So I set it to the right one and it works wonders. God what a PITA it is, lol. Test account are ALWAYS good for these things. lol

thx a lot!

That is my concern too.

It's so evil I love it!

There is an exploit with this. I had a member exploit it and logged into ever account on my site. Then he was able to go into my server and mess with all of the other sites that I host. You should look into this if you need proof please post here and i will have the guy do it again.

Sorry, but I think someone is winding you up. There is nothing in this to exploit, it has no user input at all.

I am curious as to how much server load this would stress on my server?

Far too small to measure.

Great mod Paul,

I have a little question..... if you put a registered usera that you want to be miserable, you put like miserable user but like an adittional group, is this also works ?? or the miserable group have to be the unique group of that user ??

thanx

Mario