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.

[BigDog56]

Installed, works great! Thank you, nice mod!

[pakomen]

This is really f****d up but I love the concept. hahaha.

[Kaycee123]

We installed this on our website and set one of our users as "miserable". Within a few days, he sent us a message with a screenshot of a listing for "Miserable users" with his name as the only one listed.

How is this possible??? I have been unable to find ANYWHERE on the regular website where this is listed. Is there any way he could have seen this listed somewhere without having access to our Admin Control panel somehow??

We have reason to believe that this user (now banned) is very skilled with computers. He has caused a lot of problems in the past while for us.

[leeman]

Originally Posted by Kaycee123

We installed this on our website and set one of our users as "miserable". Within a few days, he sent us a message with a screenshot of a listing for "Miserable users" with his name as the only one listed.

How is this possible??? I have been unable to find ANYWHERE on the regular website where this is listed. Is there any way he could have seen this listed somewhere without having access to our Admin Control panel somehow??

We have reason to believe that this user (now banned) is very skilled with computers. He has caused a lot of problems in the past while for us.

I think you have to set the Miserable users group to "no show" .

I have and they don't show ..

And what I did and do is that I put the ppl that are supposed to be miserable in the miserable users group as a SECONDARY group ... Not primary ...

[Kaycee123]

Okay, thanks for that - yes it was set for that group to show under "View Forum leaders" - that must be where he saw it.

Perhaps this shouldn't be an option for a mod like this - it doesn't make much sense to set someone as a "Miserable user" and then have them be able to find out that you've done it. Its easy to miss one small thing like that in the settings!!

[WiseOne38221]

omG, this is AWESOME! I will never ban again! Miserable Users, here I come, LMAO! EXCELLENT Mod! Bravo!

[Videx]

I think you have to set the Miserable users group to "no show"

I hope someone is going to tell us how to do this?

it was set for that group to show under "View Forum leaders" - that must be where he saw it.

You put a moderator in MU?

[deezelpope]

<i>Have you read this thread over, Videx? The answers are all there. You've gotta create a new usergroup for this mod, and in usergroup options, you'll choose whether or not this group will be viewable on Show Groups...this option sets whether or not they'll show on the 'View Forum Leaders' page.</i>

[Videx]

Thanks Deezel; I guess I must have because mine is set to 'no'. But that really should be in the installation instructions, not buried somewhere in 14 pages of a discussion thread.

And it still doesn't seem to answer Kaycee's question. Unless they really did put a moderator in MU, which seems unlikely.

[0ptima]

Does this affect server load?