Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Miserable Users

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

The ever popular "miserable users" hack for vb 3.8.

Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. This version is based on the vb 3.7 version. Credit to Zzed for the original idea.

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:

v3.8.001 - Initial vB 3.8 release.

[beishe8]

Originally Posted by Wordplay

sounds cold, why would you want to annoy your members like that?

Only some of your naughty members.

[CLUB AMPLE]

haha this is cruel... i love it!!

[kriscad]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Where does it say its better ?

haha


i may have to try this one

[badboyz]

a idea if you put it in option to do it by ips also it would b v cool b/c i have few ppl keep coming bk n i don't want ban their ips b/c they increase my members total lol so i will just bug them out lol v nice mod ty clicked installed

[Paul M]

It already has that option.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

wooT! still one of the best mods out there. thanks!

[Blue91]

Just went from 3.03 (where I had this) to 3.8. Reinstalled and worked great. Thanks again.

[Phaedrus]

Paul, Did this change much since the last one? Will my previous version continue to operate as it has in the past or do I need to upgrade?

[Paul M]

Nothing has changed.

[terracore]

Originally Posted by Phaedrus

Paul, Did this change much since the last one? Will my previous version continue to operate as it has in the past or do I need to upgrade?

I recommend you upgrade. I had this mod installed. I had no usergroups assigned to be a "miserable user" and the plugin was disabled via the control panel. When I upgraded to 3.7.4 to 3.8.0 about 20% of my users started complaining about the pages not loading. It took almost a week of my time troubleshooting the problem. IT WAS THIS MOD (the previous version). There was no rhyme or reason to explain why 20% of the users were randomly being affected, or how a disabled mod could do this, or why upgrading to 3.8.0. caused this to happen.

If you are having this problem you might not even know it. Take a look at your stats and see if they suddenly dropped off after upgrading to 3.8.0.