Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Move Inactive and Lurker Users To New Usergroup

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This runs daily to check the activity of members and move them to a new usergroup if they meet certain rules.

Lurkers
If a member has not posted on the forum for a defined number of days (90 by default) then they will be moved from their existing usergroup to the defined usergroup (this can be any existing usergroup, however, you should really create a new 'Lurkers' group

Inactive Members
If a member has not visited the forum for a defined number of days (180 by default) then they will again be moved from their existing usergroup to the defined usergroup (this can also be any existing usergroup, however, you should again really create a new 'Inactive Users' group.

Only members of a defined list of usergroups are checked for inactivity.

If a member of the Inactive usergroup returns to the forum, or the Lurkers usergroup posts again, and auto-restore is enabled, they are automatically restored either to another pre-defined usergroup (by default this is usergroup 2, Registered Users) or to the usergroup they were in before they got initially moved. Note that if you use this option then you really must have seperate Inactive and Lurker usergroups, otherwise you are going to get in a mess.

Any of the options above can be disabled if not required. All options are in ACP > Options > Inactive and Lurker Members

To install simply download the file and import in vbulletin using the product manager.

Note: The move of inactive users is done once per day as part of the existing vbulletin daily update cron job. The restore function should be pretty much instant. Also, this works purely on the Primary usergroup, secondary groups are neither checked or altered.


History:

v4.0.1 : 02-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 02-Jan-2010 : Prevent restore to usergroup 0 if old usergroup data is missing.
v4.0.3 : 16-Feb-2010 : Lurker & Inactive settings split out.
v4.0.4 : 18-Feb-2010 : Installer & code updates.
v4.0.5 : 12-Sep-2010 : Fix bug in disable options.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[mitch84]

Originally Posted by Paul M

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ok, thank you

[Boots]

Will this give them an additional usergroup instead of moving them?

[Paul M]

As it says ;

... this works purely on the Primary usergroup, secondary groups are neither checked or altered.

[Boots]

Originally Posted by Paul M

As it says ;

Any chance of adding that ability? I'd like to be able to flag lurkers with an additional usergroup so I can treat them differently but it would break everything if I changed their primary group.

[Boots]

Keep up the good work btw. I run a ton of your mods

[captkirk]

Great mod, as I had 5 thousand zero posters last year and 200 of them would visit every day.
Will vote on this one.

[Alibass]

Paul M

How does your mod work when it moves a lurker or inactive member to the inactive/lurker groups, does it return them immediately back to their previous status or do they have to post first? I am really looking for something to force them in to posting first before they can return to their previous status.

[Paul M]

If they are classed as inactive, then simply returning will trigger the restore, if they are currently classed as a lurker, then they must post to trigger a restore.

[Alibass]

Thanks Paul, I can make that work for what I need to do.

*Installed*

[Alibass]

Paul M,

When the cron routine ran everything executed as it should have and put my lurkers/inactive members into the groups created. It also changed the primary group name appropriately but it did not change their user title I have set for the lurker/inactive groups. Does this mod to this? I would really like for the lurkers and inactive to show in the member list with their new group user title.