Advanced Flood Control
 

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|| Advanced Flood Control
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jun 29, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

This hack gives you a couple of advanced post flood control settings.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

• Allows you to control flood check time on a per-usergroup basis.
• Optional "Dynamic Flood Control Time", using which an admin may specify an extended number of seconds for users who have posted X or more posts in Y hours.

VERSION HISTORY

1.1.0
[+] The product is now officially compatible with 3.5.x - 3.8.x.
[+] Simplified a few phrases.

1.0.1
[+] The product is now officially compatible with 3.6.
[F] Corrected a minor typo.

1.0.0
Initial Version

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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Sweet, just what I needed. Installing

Hmm, I set 240 seconds in my unregistered usergroup and it didnt stop me from posting multiple times.

That is because you are an administrator of the board. The flood thing does not apply to moderators and higher.

I logged out. I did say as unregistered it let me post over and over.

How should it detect posts from unregistered people? vBulletin does not do that... Otherwise, all the guests on the internet would be dependant on each other. If you want, uninstall the hack, and see for yourself that vbulletin's flood control does not concern guests.

Yes I just found that out. Thats riciculous. You would think it could track the IP as an additional post.

Not really... IPs are often shared, esspecially, on corporate networks. That would be a nuissance is posting would treat a network of computers as the same computer... :(

I would think that the board could just store each user as a session cookie and know if that person posted again.

Yes... But you should really post this issue on Jelsoft's site :)