[bigwater]

Paul, this is a great mod and I have been using it succesfully for a long time now, but I came across an anomoly that may or may not need to be addressed. It should probably at least be addressed in the documentation somewhere.

I had a man bot register on the site and one of the supermods immediately banned him after his first spam post. The bot refused to give up and kept hammering the site, which is typical of these types of bots... not much you can do except put a ban on their ip... but my co-administrator had the bright idea of putting miserable user as a secondary group to the banned user primary group to slow it down. This created a flood of database errors. Between 2a.m. this morning when he added miserables to the banned user and 2p.m. this afternoon, I received over 400 MySQL database error messages "database has gone away" in my email inbox.

No big deal, I took miserables off of him, banned the IP and deleted all but one of the emails for reference. All of the problems ceased immediately. Just thought you might like to know about this weird interaction between banned/miserables groupings for future head scratching.

Edit: latest version of miserables running on vB 3.8.4 PL2