Version: 1.3.1, by akanevsky
Developer Last Online: Feb 2016
Category: Administrative and Maintenance Tools -
Version: 3.6.0
Rating:
Released: 11-20-2006
Last Update: 11-24-2006
Installs: 172
DB Changes Uses Plugins Template Edits
Additional Files
No support by the author.
I no longer support my hacks. Please feel free to update them and release new versions elsewhere as long as I get the credit for the original modification.
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|| "Smith" Warning System
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Co-Author(s) : Mr_Devlin (German Translation)
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5 / 3.6
|| Released : Nov 25, 2006
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|| Time required to install: 1 minute
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION
Have you been running into troublesome users ever since you have began administering your bulletin board? Have you been forced into banning these users because there was no other way to prevent them from wreaking havoc in your community? Look no further. "Smith" Warning System is a professional solution that features a system of warning points as an alternative to an immediate ban. A must-have tool for a serious administrator.
STATISTICS
File Uploads: 1
Template Changes: 5
Products to Install: 1
FEATURES
Configuration Options
Banning Threshold (defines the maximum number of points)
Banning Usergroup (defines where to move a user after the user has reached the threshold)
Automatically Create Warning Usernote for Warned User (yes / no)
Fake Warner (a fake person from whom warnings originate)
Forum for Information Threads (can be turned off completely)
Enable Conditional Display of "Issue New Warning" Link in Showthread and Showpost (Advanced Option; Takes Extra Queries)
Extensive Usergroup Permissions
Can Issue Warnings
Can Administer Warnings
Can Disable Notification
Can Be Warned
Can Override Warning Settings (Defines whether number of points, duration period, reputation effect and revokation cost may be customized per-warning)
Can View Own Warnings
Can View Others Warnings
Warning Type Manager
Title & Description
Default number of points (customizable per warning)
Default duration period (customizable per warning)
Default reputation effect (customizable per warning)
Default self-revokation cost (customizable per warning)
Each warning type can be deactivated or deleted if desired.
Warning History Manager
Extensive filter for a quick lookup of warnings that much certain criteria.
Ability to permanently revoke unexpired warnings as an alternative to complete deletion. That way they stay in the log, but have no further effect.
Smart, Full-Featured Front End
Amount of points and duration of a warning.
Real and "Verbal" (non-penalty) warnings, both of which are recorded into the warning log.
If certain setting (vBulletin Options -> Warning System) of the hack is misconfigured, an error message will be displayed when you attempt to issue a new warning, thus preventing your database from potential corruption.
Each post can only be warned once.
A person may not issue a self-warning.
Verbal warnings are displayed with a "verbal" sign in the log in place of the points.
Information about an issued warning is automatically recorded into user's usernotes page. If a warning is deleted, the usernote is deleted too. The feature can be turned off if desired.
Information about an issued warning is automatically posted in the form of a new thread in a designated forum. The feature can be turned off if desired.
If a post has an attached warning, the brief warning details are displayed at the bottom of the post.
If a person a positive warning level, it is displayed in the posts and in the profile of that person.
Warned posts are automatically locked from any further modifications by their owners.
Warning history, once a user has one or more warnings, is available from the user's profile and from posts.
Members who have a permission to issue warning are unable to issue warnings to higher-standing usergroups (such as moderator -> supermoderator or supermoderator -> admin).
A sophisticated "who's online" handler that shows exactly what a user is doing in the front-end warning system.
Only those links to which the viewer has access are displayed. For example, a moderator will not see an "issue new warning" link on a supermoderor's post, but an administrator will.
Reputation Effect: Amount of reputation points that will be subtracted from the user's account until the warning expires or is revoked/deleted.
Reputation-Based Self-Revokation Capability: Each warning can be set to allow the end user to buy the warning out in exchange for a certain amount of reputation points.
Bonus! The following importer has been included into the package:
Inferno Warning System v1.3
VERSION HISTORY
1.3.1
Corrected a postbit_legacy template bug.
1.3.0
The first free release that is officially cross-compatible with both vBulletin 3.5 and 3.6.
1.2.2 [F] Corrected a licensing issue. [F] Corrected a cron bug, which caused an sql error. [F] Changed behavior of "Can View ___ Warnings" permission to cover the warning level displayed in posts.
1.2.1 [+] Reputation Points Option was removed from vBulletin Options. Instead, Reputation Effect can now be defined per Warning Type and even per Warning. [+] Reputation-Based Self-Revokation Capability: Each warning can be set to allow the end user to buy the warning out in exchange for a certain amount of reputation points. [+] Feature to enable creation of warning information threads in a specific forum. [+] More detailed and better formatted usernotes and notifications.
1.1.0 [+] Ability to Issue Verbal Warnings [+] Ability to Define a Fake Warner [+] Automatic Usernotes Creation [+] Warned Posts May Not Be Modified by the Author [+] More sophisticated who's online handler [+] Warning sign on warned posts
1.0.0
Introductory Release
INTRODUCTION
This hack includes a cron, which you do not need to manually add to your cron manager. The cron is added automatically for you once you install the product XML.
If you wish to import your warning data from another warning system, upload warn_import.php from ./do_not_upload/ to ./admincp/ and run it from your browser.
The installation manual is contained within the attached file.
Q: Why did this become a free product? A: Seeing how there are plenty of alternative solutions that seem to satisfy users despite the fact they are full of bugs as well as the fact that vBulletin 3.6.0 has a warning system of its own, we decided that there is no point in having this hack as a commercial product anymore.
Q: How is this different from vBulletin's Infraction System? A: This has much more features that are more reasonable and more interesting than those of vBulletin's. Read through the list of features and look at screenshots to see for yourself.
Q: How is this different from an alternative warning system called BLAH_BLAH_BLAH? A: This has more features, less bugs (if any), and this is just a whole different project. See screenshots for yourself.
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