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

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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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Nice hack and first reply with first install :D Good Work

Yeah finaly it?s released ;)

Like I have told you, I use your old version and there doesn?t seem to be any problems in 3.6.4. Anyway I will upgrade soon.

Thanks for the official 3.6 version :)

Nice one. Installed. :)

Thank you thank you!

i was looking for something like this. gonna check it out later

Any chance to use it based on post count instead of usergroup?

I only want to enable it for users with less than 5 posts. I could create a special usergroup for this, but here an example why this isn´t optimal...
When the user has more than 5 posts and gets promoted to the other usergroup without flood check he will be able to post without limits. After posts of him get deleted and he will have 2 posts or less, he is still in the usergroup without flood check, and this is not good.
I could handle this by setting his usergroup manually back through admincp, but that´s a lot of work if you do it with each member.

So any chance to make it based on post count instead of usergroup?

A nice addon, I'm wondering if there is a chance you could make the delay on reports editable as well - currently vB still uses the email delay, even though if you decide to use the posting of reports - I'd like to change that.
Keep up the great work!

Is this still working for people on 3.6.7?

I just tried installing this, and cant see any new options in 'vbulletin options' or on the left in the admincp, or in usergroup options. so I have checked everywhere settings could be possibly added, but cant seem to find them.

Edit nvm, I was hoping that his over rided the private message flood control as well, which seems to be the reason I cant find it ^^

Hopefully you may consider this as a future update? to include private messages in the advanced flood control. thanks.