Remove User Punitive [Inline Moderation]
 

[This hack work fine with vBulletin 3.8.x also]

Today spammers are a great menace for communities which many contrivances are discussed heretofore for this threat. Of course this menace exists for vBulletin too and also everyone who used that, may saw many of hacks that made to battle with this ill.

Specially that even Human Verification systems are not a snag for spam registration today, so there own a tool to quick strike and decisive smash with this such registration may be a nice helper for our website.

Security Solutions
Maybe you think with yourself that a hack which contain a physically user deletion method via inline moderation may dangerous for your community, because of this hack encompass five security solution that I present for you.

1. Conclusive Verify Checkbox: While this checkbox (Yes, I'm sure) is not set to checked will not any affective by this hack.
2. By Usergroup: For more security using of this hack, there is a Usergroup parameter that will secure community from a mistake user deletion.
3. By User Post Count: To prevent delete users as mistake, this option will help you to set post count that while user has equal or greater post that you have specified for this parameter, will not any affective.
4. By User Registration Age: This option will help you to increase the safety of using this hack by compare user registration age, in fact if user was registered for specified days that is set for this parameter, remove of user will not affective.
5. By Human Verification: With this option, Administrator will be required to pass the Human Verification test before he/she can continue to remove user(s). This option can helpful for tiptop security of your board while this hack is installed and enabled.

Installation Information
This hack has a simple installation without need to affect any changes on files, templates or etc. You will only need to import the XML file via Product Manager which this action can only take less than 30 seconds from you.

Note - After Installation
This hack is enabled by default after installation complete, so if you want to apply the security of using this hack, you may try via vBulletin Options then select the Remove User Punitive (Inline Moderation) and change the security and global options as who you want. However best security configuration is set by default.

Who can using this feature on the community?
By default only members of Administrators usergroup and if 'Can Access Control Panel (is Administrator)' permission is set to 'Yes' for Super Moderators usergroup can use this feature.
- Can Moderators using this feature also?
Yes, but you will need to set follow parameters:

1. Set 'Can Access Control Panel (is Administrator)' permission to 'Yes' for Moderators usergroup.
2. Set 'Can Remove User On Punitive' administrator permission to 'Yes' from Administrator Permissions panel for your specified moderator.

Please don't forget to click Mark as Installed to receive updates if you use this hack.

I test this hack on vBulletin 3.8.0 Release Candidate 2 and work as well. :up:

Is it possible to have the option to either ban the email address or IP address at the same time?

Is it possible to incorporate an option for sending the user to coventry?

Sunrise, any update on the above?

I'm sorry for this answer, but there isn't any update for this modification, because I guess this hack was not useful, whereas total installs of this modification.