Miscellaneous Hacks - April Fools - Ban User

A slight modification of an in house experiment described here.

Users are prompted with the option to ban any user they choose for a period within 3-30 days. Upon submitting, there is a half second pause, then the username switches with their own name followed with another half second pause, before the script finally submits. Don't worry -- the user input here is completely ignored.

The entered username is completely ignored, and the user submitting the form is banned for the period they entered.

Refer to attached screenshots for more info.

It's up to you to link to this file, and you can also view ban.php?do=view for a list of banned users.


... you may want to unban some of these users the next day. No pressure though.

[tobe12]

Originally Posted by leginag

The mod was fun and it was funny seeing ppl complaining in our chat box.

However, there is an issue when I am trying to unban them.

When they get 'banned', their primary group just gets changed to "COPPA users awaiting moderation", but when I search for users in that usergroup, it says there aren't any in there.

So I just can't go an unban them all easily. I now have to get them to report to me that they were banned. :s which is a pain cos there are some hundred+ ppl

Is there something I am missing? How can I mass-unban everyone?

I am having the same issue and I don't remember even installing this mod. Any suggestions?

[tobe12]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You can see all banned users in Users > View Banned Users.

Thank you

[BirdOPrey5]

Nice... I made some edits... changed it actually ban from 10 to 120 MINUTES (although it still says "Days" so if someone bans someone for 30 days it really becomes 30 minutes... should keep anyone from being annoyed too much.

Even when the "fun" is over I think I'll keep it for people who feel the need to ban themselves, like a self imposed "cool off" period.

Thanks :up:

[EddyMaxx]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Nice... I made some edits... changed it actually ban from 10 to 120 MINUTES (although it still says "Days" so if someone bans someone for 30 days it really becomes 30 minutes... should keep anyone from being annoyed too much.

Even when the "fun" is over I think I'll keep it for people who feel the need to ban themselves, like a self imposed "cool off" period.

Thanks :up:

Hey Joe... What did you change to make to minutes instead of days?

[BirdOPrey5]

In the .php file find the line:

PHP Code:

$liftdate = TIMENOW + (86400 * $days); 


86400 is the number of seconds in 1 day (60 * 60 * 24)... Change it to the number of seconds in one minute (60) to make the ban in minutes rather than days.

Just keep in mind the scheduled task that unbans people I think runs only once every hour by default so a "5 minute" ban will last until the scheduled task runs after the ban is up.

[EddyMaxx]

Thanks man.

[Digital Jedi]

This is just wrong on so many levels.

...

I'll let you know how it turns out.

[bornoffire]

Does anyone know how to get this to work on 4.0+?

[Dark Pulse]

I would absolutely love this if it could be updated for vBulletin 4.x.

Yes, I'm already planning how to screw with my users next year. I'm a mean-spirited guy, what can I say?

[SoftWareRevue]

What if we were to move the user to a group that isn't a banned group? Would this still move them back when time's up or manually via the page?