Sadistic - annoy unwanted forum visitors
 

The addon allows to set one or more usergroups who you wish to annoy. Users in these groups who
browse your forum will experience random, annoying effects (blinking text, backward text etc).
This makes for a fun alternative to banning, and can actually prove more effective: a banned user
will often just re-register under a different name; with Sadistic, the user may just decide that
your site is buggy, and give in.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2010/11/10.png

lol...this sounds like a real good way to pi$? people off ....sounds good :eek::eek::eek:

This would be useful to me if it could target computers that don't allow your site to display adverts (Javascript disabled) and those with certain browser plugins activated. Of course, that would require more work. As it is, Miserable Users is more than enough.

That is not a negative comment on your good work though...

how do I select a usergroup?

I get this as an option:
Everything else is configurable

tagged and thanks

I think I am going to have plenty of fun

would it be possible to assign the mod to individual members instead of usergoups ?

This, and you've got a winner.

Just make a new usergroup called Sadistic or something, and then you have the same functionality..

does it work for additional usergroups ?

Can we get an option to add soundbites? :D

how do you configure which usergroup to anoy?

Just added two members to the sadistic group should have a laugh within the next few days. They will be sending their puters in for repair when I have finished with them.

BTW I tested it out and couldn't get back in to my site, so I had to use my other computer to get back into my admin. (Thought I should mention it)

Great mod.

Personally I think it's neater to make it work on a user group, rather than individual members. Just create a new user group, and add the individuals to it.

Sola, when you say 'certain browser plugins', I'm curious why this would be useful. If there's a good reason, I'll see about adding it to the next version

Hmmmm... Couple this with the miserable users hack and we have a real winner here. :)

Just wondering, I have some users coming in through proxy servers to spam the site. So when I try to look up their IP Address's, nothing shows up. Any way to get this to recognize some proxy server and if so, forward those users to another place?

Thanks a lot, works fine on 4.1.0 PL2 (;

Same question here guys... how do we configure which usergroup to annoy?

As it stands, it is not a configurable option to change to any specific usergroup :(

I am using 4.1.0 PL2 so I have no idea why the post before me the fellow states it works as it does not as of this post.

This sounds awesome thanks

Same problem here... no option to configure the usergroup. 4.1 PL2. What gives?

That's really strange. I'll uprade to 4.1 PL 2 and see what's going wrong.

I've just tried installing it on a 4.1 PL 2 site, and couldn't see any problems.

Can you clarify exactly what is going wrong? In the options page, do you see the list of existing usergroups? Are you able to highlight one?

:confused: Using 4.0.8 and I as others see:

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/1284/sadd.jpg

Are kermit2 with a few friends sadistic and joking with us? :D

No screenshot or demo = Uninstalled.

Ahh, so it's not even showing the multi select box.

I've made an alteration which may fix it (download product-sadistic.xml from the first post). I haven't been able to replicate the problem though, so can't be sure this fix will work ... but if anyone wants to give it a try, that would be great.

Oh, and screenshot now uploaded too

Kermit2, same thing... there is NO option for choosing a usergroup. Not at all. Says "Usergorup: None" same as the pic provided above.

@ kermit2:

Please stop wasting our time, it was funny the first time.

Nor is there "[Edit] [Delete]"

But if anyone can fix a produckt like this, I would appreciate it. :)

Uninstalled.. ...again! :mad:

Works fine on 4.1.0 PL2, thanks kermit2 (;

One question left: The Sadistic use Cookies to annoy the users, right? Is there any chance to activate the Add-on for IP addresses as well, not only user groups? I would like to annoy a very special group of users with a static IP ^^

Best regards from Germany
ForenOpfer

Still doesn't work for me in 4.1 PL2. There is no option for adding a usergroup.

ForenOpfer: the plugin doesn't set a cookie of its own, but it does indirectly rely on cookies, since the victim has to be logged in. I agree that IP-based selection would be useful too - I'll add this when I get a chance (maybe in a couple of days).

Snatta: before you get too worked up, don't forget that I wrote this in my spare time, and am making it available for free. I haven't been able to replicate the problem on any of my vbulletin installations, which is making it harder to fix

It amazes me how worked up people get over FREE Mods... and get all upset with those who donate their hard work.

Wrote what???

Feel free (anyone) to send me to a demo page.

Uninstalled for the third time. ;)

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/4896/saddn.jpg

Whats gone wrong is you stole the code from Miserable users but dont actually understand how it all works, the result being it doesnt work.

By "alteration" I assume what you mean is you took a bit more of my original code in the hope that it might fix it - but it didnt.

Who wrote it ? What you mean is I wrote it, and then you copied it, and changed the actual effects - possibly wrote that little bit, or maybe you copied that from somewhere as well. I dont know.

Please see above re "hard work". ;)

Wow .. I just noticed you released it on my birthday. Not cool. :mad:

Do you know where to find this kind of function?



Sinserely

well.. I guess that makes sense...

Whoops. kermit2, need help getting that hand out of the cookie jar?