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.

[Suzie]

Does this work with 3.7?

[Paul M]

The 3.7 version does

[Suzie]

Well fudge, I searched and missed it I guess. Thanks.

[Brady1505]

Hi,
thanks for this hack!
I have a special problem: I want to have all users belonging to a certain country as miserable users.
In the AdminCP I can enter single IP adresses.
I can get complete IPDeny country lists from the internet but they are in a special format such as 41.209.0.0/18 which means the range from 0 to 18
Do you see any chance to insert this in your program? Or how do I enter the ranges correctly in the AdminCP?

Thank you.

Brady

[Paul M]

You cannot use the format 41.209.0.0/18 - but I think (from memory) you can put 41.209. which will MU any address starting with 41.209

[dashed]

Does this work on vb3.7?

[Paul M]

The 3.7 version does .....

[newguy]

I am getting a data base error now since I went to vBulletin 3.6.10. It was not happening at all when I used the hack on a member with version 3.6.8

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.10:

Invalid SQL:

UPDATE session
SET lastactivity = 1210003778, location = '/forums/online.php?do=resolveip&ipaddress=203.158.221. 227', inforum = 0, inthread = 0, incalendar = 0, badlocation = 0
WHERE sessionhash = '3d4726083e2387b82b22911daaf7d11a';

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away Error Number : 2006
Date : Monday, May 5th 2008 @ 12:09:53 PM
Script : removed link because when clicked it causes a data base error
Referrer : http://teamstersonline.com/forums/on...e&pp=20&page=1
IP Address : xx.xx.xx.xx
Username : member name
Classname : vB_Database

[Seiyaboy]

Originally Posted by newguy

I am getting a data base error now since I went to vBulletin 3.6.10. It was not happening at all when I used the hack on a member with version 3.6.8

Have you tried uninstalling the mod and installing it again after you upgraded your vbulletin? As far as I know, vbulletin 3.6.10 uses a security token and has affected many other mods. I clean installed this mod after upgrading from 3.6.8 to 3.6.10 and it worked just fine.

[Paul M]

The CSRF security token has no bearing on this mod.