An alternative to banning: Miserable Users
 

This hack is an alternative to banning a user. As the name suggests a user who
gets hit with this hack will become truly miserable while trying to access
your board.

So here is what really happens to a miserable user:

- There is a random 60-120 second delay each time they click on a link.
- 90% of times they have no search engine acccess.
- 75% of the times they get the server too busy error.

If they don't get the server too busy error:
- 50% of the times they may get a blank page
- 30% of the times they may get forwarded to the forum main page
- 20% of the time they may be able to see the page they asked for.

after doing all the math in actuality they have only a 5% chance of seeing the
page they clicked on. What kills them is the time they have to wait before
anything happens.

I actually once tracked a miserable user and watched him suffer for 2 whole
hours before he was able to make a simple post.

This hack is considered one of the most sadistic hacks on my board. :D

The hack allows you to make your user miserable via the admin CP. It also
allows you to search for all miserable users through the admin CP as well.

Also in showthread.php, it appends a red status that is only visibly to admins
and mods stating that a user is miserable.


Tables affected by this hack: user

Files affected by this hack: global.php, showthread.php, admin/user.php

Lol, cool hack!!
Install it later on... ;)
thanks man!!

I'm going to install this one :) Sadistic hack, but fun :)

BTW, will this also affect the admincp? Cause if it does I won't test it :P

yes entry today i'll install it ^____^ lol

This hack is set/reset via the admin CP. It does add a couple of things to it.

LOL! Good idea.

lol.. I like this. Good idea and good creation, thanks for sharing!

Excellent idea!

I love it!

- miSt

Zzed, nice idea. ;)

Is there any way to have the user show up as miserable in the online.php?

lol, i started to feel sorry for the users banned like this when i read this thread...

hhaahah thanks... I'm going to start using it right now on my forums!!!

Zzed, great idea. thanks! :D

Zzed, I was looking at you code and I am confused about something. What is the $post[stunned] in this line and what does it do? That is the only place in the code I see that. ;)

Great idea, great hack.

Craig

So awesome, thanks a bunch :banana:

Sorry Boofo, That was a small leftover from another hack that I combined with the misery hack. It should not cause any problems since $post[stunned] will be 0 by default. ;)

Excellent !! I'm sure to install it in near future !!

Thx for sharing

I installed it and it works Awesome ROFL :p It took forever just to log in LMAO

Funniest...hack...ever!

Thank you for all your kind words everyone. :)

awesome, really nice to piss the ppl off, lol, thnx for sharing!

Super Duper nice Hack! ^___~

Does this not like GZIP compression or something? I tested it out, and while it seemed to work I didn't get any pages, just garbled nonsense the whole time.

Ok have installed this bad boy and it works like a charm!! One of the coolest way to ban someone!! :D
Ive tested it with the account of my girlfriend and gave it up after 5 min. of loading-loading-error-loading-loading....

[high]* Kars10 klicks install!![/high]

LOL We've all done things like that a time or two. If you write hacks, it happens. ;)

Any way to be able to set this in the usergroups, too, as well as by individual users?

I gave this a try and gave up trying to login to my board. It definitely works. ;)

This is BAD!!! Love it!!

*Clicks Install*

Thank you for this hack! It is working great!!

damn this hack is slack...

i might install it when i have some time

This hack is bad.. reall bad.. no man this is really bad.. I love it :)

installing it today

Thank you all for your kind words. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

This is brutally mean and sadistic. I mean, who in there right minds would come up with something like this. I love it. :D

[high]* Link14716 installs.[/high]

You talkin' to me? :D

Thank you for your kind words. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Talk about your torture! I'm laughing already. I'm gonna install as soon as vBulletin 2.3.0 is declared stable :D

This is great, I might just unban a few users to watch.

This is great with pizza and beer :)

hehe

midz

LOL :D Pizza beer... :D

If you want a better way to track them, check out this hack: Track 1 user ;)

Getting this error - any advise?

Parse error: parse error in /home/bulldog/public_html/forum/global.php on line 428

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: vbsetcookie() in /home/bulldog/public_html/forum/member.php on line 34

Forget it - silly old me forgot a "}"

opps..doh!

Oh man I will love having this one. Its almost like being able to get revenge and they wont think you are doing it on purpose >:) I will install this one, as soon as I get a couple of other things fixed.

Gonna click install anyway.

The maker of this must really hate someone...

Wow...what a great idea. I'm not even gonna tell the banned users. This will be dope!!!!

I'll install later!!!