Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Miserable users

This modification is no longer available or supported.

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.

[Snowman_175]

for some reason it has stopped working any ideas?

[Paul M]

Things don't just stop working, what changes have you made to your set-up.

[gazzak]

Thanks for this superb mod Paul M. I installed it and tested it on a couple of volunteers, they hated every second of forum use today. This will work out superb against people we don't want coming back. Keep up the good work.

[tsadi]

great hack Paul M!

had it not been because of the logouthash parameter here:

http://domain.com/forums/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=2a7c27791270a72adea2dd8c9f6d96c0

i would have redirected my miserable users to the logout function just to piss them off even more. :devious:

[projectego]

Brilliant! I am definitely installing this!

[Ragnarok]

Installed, with intent of driving away undesirables, until I started questioning the ethics of it... still installed, just unsure of what to use it for

[basskiller]

there is a flaw to this hack that should be addressed.

Even the owner of the board can be put into this usergroup and therefore be banned from his own board.

Just playing around, One of my admins has done this.

[da420]

Originally Posted by basskiller

there is a flaw to this hack that should be addressed.

Even the owner of the board can be put into this usergroup and therefore be banned from his own board.

Just playing around, One of my admins has done this.

Um, that's not a flaw. Why would you ban the owner of the board by putting him in the miserable users user group? That sounds a lot more like unintelligence more than anything to me.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by basskiller

there is a flaw to this hack that should be addressed.

Even the owner of the board can be put into this usergroup and therefore be banned from his own board.

Just playing around, One of my admins has done this.

Not a flaw, just not a very bright thing to do - you could just as easily put them in the banned group, but that's not a flaw in vBulletin .....

[basskiller]

Originally Posted by da420

Um, that's not a flaw. Why would you ban the owner of the board by putting him in the miserable users user group? That sounds a lot more like unintelligence more than anything to me.

unintelligent ???? Because we found what we think is a possible flaw????
The senrio I described was goofing around tp see if it could be done.
It's unintelligent to think it can't be done because you don't think someone should do it.



Here let me explain it to you.
Lets say you have a few admins on your site. You get into an arguement with one of them.. He decides he wants to get even with you or whatever.. He puts you in that usergroup.


As a default. The vbulletin script is built so the owner and whomever you wish can not be deleted. This is done through an addition to a PHP file.

This hack hasn't quite circumvented the defult, but has put a huge damper on it