Annother banning alternative : Starved Users

This hack is another alternative to banning a user. As the name suggests a user who
gets hit with this hack will be deprived from a lot of the general board features.

So here is what really happens to a starved user:

- Every graphic image on the board will be replaces with a red X icon.
- They don't have access to the search engine.
- They have a 10x flood control time
- They are only allowed to post 20 characters per post (the 20 charcters is
inclusive of the post title.)
- They can not see avatars in posts
- They can not display their signature
- Their user options is set to 0

This hack is another one of my sadistic hacks on my board.

The hack allows you to make your user starved via the admin CP (In the Edit User
screen). It also allows you to search for all starved users through the admin CP
as well.

Also in showthread.php, it appends a red status that is only visibly to admins
and mods stating that a user is starved.

Tables affected by this hack: user

Files affected by this hack: global.php, showthread.php, newthread.php, newreply.php, admin/user.php, admin/functions.php

There is also a new icon that needs to be placed in the images directory: images/redx.gif

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From the MySQL prompt execute the following statement:

alter table user add starved smallint(5) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL;

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Please click the install button if you like this hack and you install it on your board.

[Zzed]

I am not a big fan of user group modifications. A user can be both miserable and starved. But the misery is such a nasty hack that it will overshadow starvation.

The timed version is quite an elaborate hack. It is a combination of 6 different hacks, and I have only released 2 of them.

[Boofo]

Today at 12:44 AM Zzed said this in Post #21
I am not a big fan of user group modifications. A user can be both miserable and starved. But the misery is such a nasty hack that it will overshadow starvation.

I'm usually not either but it might be good for banned users.

The timed version is quite an elaborate hack. It is a combination of 6 different hacks, and I have only released 2 of them.

Oh, ok. I thought maybe the timed part might be a separate hack that would work with 1 or (in your case) 6 hacks.

You know me Edwin, I'll be waiting for my next "fix".

Again, thanks for a couple of great hacks!

[Zzed]

Thank you very much for your kind words.

[Dean C]

Hehe these hacks are so sadistic but im damn gon use em

Thanks for releasing

Regards

- miSt

[Zzed]

Thank you for your kind words.

[laycomp]

LOL....you are too much bro! Thanks for these bad nasties!

[wolfman]

We get a few and they seem to have nothing better to do than to cause problems and anything I can do to make life hard for them without an actual BAN is good medicine in my book

[Zzed]

Thank guys for your kind words.

[Hobbes]

i love these 2 hacks.......lol...Zzed....j00 are teh greatest....

also, I would like to have both the miserable AND starved *GRINS*....

would I just try to integrate them both? or could someone post the code i would use for it.....?

[MGM]

Hey, I'm having a problem, whenever I try to run the SQL query, I get this error:

Error

SQL-query :  

ALTER TABLE user ADD starved smallint( 5 ) unsignedDEFAULT0 NOT NULL 

MySQL said: 


You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'DEFAULT0 NOT  NULL' at line 1

What should I do? Also, what code should I use so that I can have a choice of either Miserable or Starved user when I want to ban? Could someone post the code here please! Thanks!

MGM out