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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[Paul M]

Its not my place to explain any benefits, people use it for different reasons. If you have a use for this then thats great, otherwise you simply dont install it.

[Skyrider]

Disabled for now.. I personally don't wish to use the Lurker, but the inactivity group only. When I change the usergroup of the lurkers to 0 in hope to disable it. The users are being moved to (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation. While through the usergroup, no users are in (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation.. When I edit the user, it strangely seem to be in (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation.

Is there anyway I can disable the lurkers check?

[Paul M]

Well I suppose you could read the options

Lurker Cutoff Point
Any member who has not posted after this time period (days) will be moved.
This must be lower than the Inactive setting. Set to 0 to disable this feature.

BTW, those users are not in COPPA, they will have a usergroup of zero - its just that vbulletin has no u/g of zero, so it shows the first one in the list.

[Skyrider]

I really fail at reading, heh, Thanks.

[adembaba]

What is the advantage of putting users in a new usergroup? :s

[Paul M]

See post #31

[Skyrider]

Paul, there are tons of people now within the unknown usergroup that does not exist (usergroup 0 that I used to fill in as lurkers usergroup). How do I fix this for them to be moved to the registered usergroup again?

[Sador]

Nice mod, used it on vb 3.x as well.

I do wonder though, if I have the 3.x version of this mod installed, do I need to upgrade to this version (I suppose so) and if I do, will the usergroups all correct themselves when I upgrade the script (assuming I set up a special usergroup for the inactive people) or do I need to change those manually?

Thanks.

[Rob F]

Have installed this on test forums and it works perfectly.

Question/Suggestion for future upgrade of mod though - would it be possible to have the option added whereby you could decide for each group as to whether the restore feature is enabled? For the likes of Inactive users it'd be handy to be able to set the restore feature to be enabled, but for Lurkers leave it so they have to contact admin to have their accounts restored.

[Paul M]

Seems reasonable, I'll consider that for a future upgrade.