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As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[goxy63]

Iam on shared server, dont have that much users 10-20 online...until now no any issues with too many processes on server
After installation of this hack my site went down cause of too many processes...after killing them everything was just fine
I tested this hack only with one user, my test user

Any suggestions

[Paul M]

Nope, this doesnt create extra "processes".

[StarBuG]

Thank you very much.

We have a female user that really needs to be a little miserable

[Aneurysm]

This is gonna' be fun!

[CableSux]

I love this mod! I just installed it. I have a test user account that I added to the miserable group, when I logged in with this user I saw it in action.. GREAT! However... you say it's based on IP and username. Well, I went to log back into my admin account and all I got was "database error". I thought somehow my db got screwed up. I went into mysql and removed my test user account from the miserable group and whalla, I was able to log in again with my admin account. Looks to me that it only looks at IPs, not usernames. Is that possible?

I would love to be able to have a list of URLs to redirect to.. I've got a guy that's on the opposite political spectrum from me and I would love to send him to various (appears random) web sites of the opposite persuasion. Any tips on how this could be done instead of just one redirect URL?
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[optrex]

tried it on my own account and it works like a dream - thanks

[stabmyback]

This is pretty much my all time favorite hack.

Thank you!

[thepowerofnow]

wow this is GODLY, thanks SO MUCH for creating this ! i have an annoying user on my buddhism site ! wow he can kiss goodbye

[cmmguy]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Then it cannot have any effect - the simple fact is that if a plugin is disabled, its code is not even loaded into the plugin cache, so it cannot run.

If it was disabled and running then your plugin cache must have been broken/corrupted, and that is not a problem related to this (or any other) mod, its a fault on your board.

I disabled the Product but something seemed like it was still active. I checked the plugins and the Miserable User plugin was still active. Shouldnt that become disabled if the Product is disabled?

[jkw]

this is the best computer related invention since ascii porn and BOFH.