Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Miserable users

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The ever popular "miserable users" hack for vb 3.6. Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. This version is based on the vb 3.5 version. Credit to Zzed, and KuraFire for the pre 3.5 versions.

When classed as miserable, a member suffers ;

1. Slow response (time delay) on every page (20 to 60 seconds default).
2. A chance they will get the "server busy" message (50% by default).
3. A chance that no search facilities will be available (75% by default).
4. A chance they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).
5. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).
6. Post flood limit increased by a defined factor (10 times by default).
7. If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.

Note: All the above options are set in the vBulletin Options.

To install this hack simply download the xml file to your pc and then import it into vbulletin as a product - then create your 'miserable users' usergroup and set the value of this group, and your preferred other settings, in the hacks settings area (vBulletin Oprions > Miserable Users). To make a member suffer just edit their profile to add them to the miserable users group (it will work as either the primary group or as a secondary group).


History:

v2.10 - First vb 3.6 version, minor changes to code.
v2.11 : Dependancies updated for 3.6.0 Gold.
v2.12 : Updated for Version Checking.

[ceedee]

Originally Posted by scan-pa

Why not just add the block of IP addresses for that area into the IP MU field?

They are never the same. The IPs used are from all over the globe, the only thing that is common with these registrations is the timezone.

[peterpigman]

Is it possible to tell if someone is using this hack?

[Paul M]

Nope, but you could make a good guess.

[peterpigman]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Nope, but you could make a good guess.

Actually a site I know of is trying to change to a new site but it's members don't want to go. Everyone has had exactly what this is supposed to do for weeks and they are blaming their server etc just seems a bit strange. I was hoping something might show up in the code.

[hendri]

this is a good hack to make the spammer headache heheh

[tommyxv]

Seems to be kicking back a database errors to users in that group. Running vb 3.6.4.

I tested it with dummy account.

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE session
SET lastactivity = 1169871825, inforum = 0, inthread = 0, incalendar = 0, badlocation = 0, useragent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)'
WHERE sessionhash = '8c591f280e1dc08241ae2ac77f0738d5';

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away Error Number : 2006
Date : Friday, January 26th 2007 @ 11:24:06 PM

[Paul M]

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away Error Number : 2006

That is a server/mysql problem.

[Been Told]

Great hack, just what I needed for a problem user on my forum.

[GPS_Flex]

I love it. No need to ban users right away, just make them leave on thier own.

[tommyxv]

Originally Posted by Paul M

That is a server/mysql problem.

Wonder if the 25 sec delay is causing mysql to timeout. Every other forum function and hack works fine. I'll have to see if there if there is a setting for mysql that terminates the connection after a certain period of time.

Thanks