Miserable Users
 

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

The ever popular "Miserable Users" modification.

Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. 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 they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).
4. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).

If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.

Note: All the above are set in vBulletin Options > Miserable Users.

To Install ;

Download the xml file to your pc and import it into vbulletin as a product.
Ceate your 'Miserable Users' usergroup and set the value of this group, and your preferred other settings, in the modifications settings (vBulletin Options > Miserable Users).


To make a member suffer just edit their profile - add them to the Miserable Users group (it will work as either the primary group or as a secondary group). There is also the option to set ip addresses.


History:

v4.0.1 : 24-Dec-2009 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 20-Jan-2010 : Not released.
v4.0.3 : 26-Jan-2010 : Various updates.
v4.0.4 : 16-Feb-2010 : Fix server busy, phrase blank page message.
v4.0.5 : 18-Feb-2010 : Installer update.
v4.0.6 : 07-Mar-2010 : Changed the way the delay works.
v4.0.7 : 29-May-2010 : Fix error in upgrade section of install code.
v4.0.8 : 06-Nov-2010 : Install code updated.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

lol pretty good mod. But why do we really need this.

But definitely funny as hell!

say you have a member that you hate and you dont wanna ban them because itll look bad on your part, :D i could find some use to this

any ways of using an ip address so it does it to non users too. i could really use this :P

This has been around for 5+ years, and requested on each vb version upgrade.


This is built into it already, but wasnt mentioned in the main post so Ive added it.

Really good :) , i'll use it in future

why you need , you add delay on Guests & members , if your forum is big enough you add Premium membership with no delay , or add only delay to Guests then say " Register and surf faster"

I use parts of it for persistent spammers or bots that try to spider my site without following the ROBOTS.TXT and META data.

Thanks for updating it to 4.0.x!

Tks Paul, This is a handy add on, is it possible in the future to add Miserable AND clean-up? (i.e. all the spammer posts) as a extra bonus to the Mod?

Tks again.

Hi,
thanks for the Update.
This is on of the Add-ons on my List: "Must have before upgrade"

Mary X-Mas
Christian

ditto, :up: althou don't use this one :D

What phrases we do edit for unregistered users to log in which we can then add 'to surf faster, register now'

Thx Paul, was waiting for an update on this.

Thx Paul, was waiting for an update on this for I was using it on 3.8.4 and loved it.
marked as installed

Thanks, the perfect "moderating" tool for trols and other kind of people who otherwise would kill the forum.

This is the single most important mod for me, so now I can upgrade to vb4, thanks :)

Great, thanks for the hack as always!

have used this for long time.. some of my users HATE me I wonder why :) .. I love it

Thanks Paul

Thank you for this upgrade to 4.X Paul :):)

awesome! One of my most favorite mods :) Thank you thank you thank you!

Paul M,

Thanks for the mod
Please, find in attachment the french translation
You can find the french topic for this mod here: http://forum.vbulletin-fr.org/modifi...mod&modid=1082

gooooooooooooooooood

Thank you! You are the best! My proposition is rename this mod in "Inglourious Basterds" :D:D:D Really, very usefull mod!

I have used this hack in the past before, but on the upgrade to 4.0.0 and this hack, I get this error message on the server redirect while under a miserable user's account:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(93) : eval()'d code:23) in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3736

i think its being used on vbulletin.org
site has been sooo slow the last couple of days..

This suggests that something you have installed is inteferring. Its fine for me on my test forum.

Most "Miserable" mod ever! :D

Long-time user, back before it was written as a "product". My mods love it! Thanks Paul!

Thanks for continuing this mod!

If you need a user in time out because they tend to be troublemakers in a cycle but are otherwise popular and add to the forums....

I love this mod. I don't have much of a user for it because I rarely have a troublesome forum member, but it's really looks like a lot of fun!

on the older version u got more features

Correct.

I removed the search and flood limit as they are fairly useless, the main 4 are more than adequate to do the job required.

hahaa Thanks :)

where I can edit messages "server busy"

Its a standard vb phrase.

yesss my favorite mod returns!

OMG, this would be so wicked cruel :)

What a prank to play on friends... LOL

The flood limit was good for people who post really fast all the time but for anyone that takes there time the post limit wouldn't even afect them.

Its impossible to post fast if you use the delay function.

Is there a way you could just enter the user ID of a member to make this mod work?

How would that be any easier than simply adding them to the miserable usergroup?

No. Thats never going to happen.

Well if you have set usergroups, why would you want a miserable usergroup? You might as well just ban them then and not even use this hack!! Maybe I am wrong but It would be nice to use this on members without them knowing! If you make a special usergroup, they will know somethings up!! My 2 cents

Care to explain why?