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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[Paul M]

No, is does not use a lot of resources - however, you should not really use this for what you want, thats not what it was designed for.

[sulasno]

The page or url that members will be re-direct to by the above option. DO NOT redirect to another page within the forum as this will set up a potential loop.

would this be a valid url ?

http://www.google.com

[Paul M]

Yes.

[Ken Sanders]

Too funny!
Installed, nominated and donated. Thanks for a great mod!

[Mrdby]

(vBulletin Oprions > You spelled Options wrong..

[Paul M]

Just a typo

[3ngin33r1]

Brilliant. I hate banning people because it just opens up a can of worms. It's so "authoritarian" and other users get up in arms about people getting banned, this is the perfect solution.

No, we didn't ban anyone, they must be having problems on their end because everything works fine here.

[Micronichos]

Installed, great work!!

xxx.xxx.xxx.yyy-zzz is that a correct IP range for this mod?

[Paul M]

No, that wont work.

[DAMINK]

Lovely work. Tested and working fine.
Rated and marked installed.