Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Miserable Users

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

The ever popular "Miserable Users" modification.

Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. 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 they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).
4. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).

If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.

Note: All the above are set in vBulletin Options > Miserable Users.

To Install ;

Download the xml file to your pc and import it into vbulletin as a product.
Ceate your 'Miserable Users' usergroup and set the value of this group, and your preferred other settings, in the modifications settings (vBulletin Options > Miserable Users).


To make a member suffer just edit their profile - add them to the Miserable Users group (it will work as either the primary group or as a secondary group). There is also the option to set ip addresses.


History:

v4.0.1 : 24-Dec-2009 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 20-Jan-2010 : Not released.
v4.0.3 : 26-Jan-2010 : Various updates.
v4.0.4 : 16-Feb-2010 : Fix server busy, phrase blank page message.
v4.0.5 : 18-Feb-2010 : Installer update.
v4.0.6 : 07-Mar-2010 : Changed the way the delay works.
v4.0.7 : 29-May-2010 : Fix error in upgrade section of install code.
v4.0.8 : 06-Nov-2010 : Install code updated.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[OldSchoolDSL]

As always Paul, nice work

Installed 4.1 PL2

[denman75]

its making my total user group feeling miserable
even if i insert one ip ,than the total usergroup is getting pissed rofl

[conradk]

I had to disable the plug-in as it was slowing down my site for everyone. Looks like it was getting hung up on cron.php.

[Paul M]

This has no connection with cron.php

[alsiclani]

Hey Paul, Thank you for this hack.

Can I try to install it on a 4.1.1 version by editing <dependencies> in the xml file ?

[Paul M]

It should already install on 4.1.1

[alsiclani]

Thank you Paul,

I installed it after changing "dependencies" line in the xml file =)

[Paul M]

As I posted above you, there is no need to change the dependancies.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Paul M

As I posted above you, there is no need to change the dependancies.

Probably using an older version. Mine too cuts off at 4.0.99. Time to upgrade!

[Paul M]

It was updated for 4.1 at the start of December - all that changed was the dependancies.