Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Move Inactive and Lurker Users To New Usergroup

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This runs daily to check the activity of members and move them to a new usergroup if they meet certain rules.

Lurkers
If a member has not posted on the forum for a defined number of days (90 by default) then they will be moved from their existing usergroup to the defined usergroup (this can be any existing usergroup, however, you should really create a new 'Lurkers' group

Inactive Members
If a member has not visited the forum for a defined number of days (180 by default) then they will again be moved from their existing usergroup to the defined usergroup (this can also be any existing usergroup, however, you should again really create a new 'Inactive Users' group.

Only members of a defined list of usergroups are checked for inactivity.

If a member of the Inactive usergroup returns to the forum, or the Lurkers usergroup posts again, and auto-restore is enabled, they are automatically restored either to another pre-defined usergroup (by default this is usergroup 2, Registered Users) or to the usergroup they were in before they got initially moved. Note that if you use this option then you really must have seperate Inactive and Lurker usergroups, otherwise you are going to get in a mess.

Any of the options above can be disabled if not required. All options are in ACP > Options > Inactive and Lurker Members

To install simply download the file and import in vbulletin using the product manager.

Note: The move of inactive users is done once per day as part of the existing vbulletin daily update cron job. The restore function should be pretty much instant. Also, this works purely on the Primary usergroup, secondary groups are neither checked or altered.


History:

v4.0.1 : 02-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 02-Jan-2010 : Prevent restore to usergroup 0 if old usergroup data is missing.
v4.0.3 : 16-Feb-2010 : Lurker & Inactive settings split out.
v4.0.4 : 18-Feb-2010 : Installer & code updates.
v4.0.5 : 12-Sep-2010 : Fix bug in disable options.

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.

[YankForum]

installed & nominated

[Froberg]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Another 24 hours is unlikely to change anything, I suggest you check how you have it set-up.

Default set-up, 180 and 90.. gonna fiddle around with it and see what happens.

[Paul M]

I was referring more to your usergroup settings.

Lurkers are processed first, so unless you include the lurkers group in your Inactive Checked Groups, then users will get moved to it first, and stay there.

[denman75]

Paul its working now
some English words are difficult for me
i was misunderstanding u
want to thank you *nominated*

[Paul M]

Good to hear.

[btlewand]

Is creating a thread considered satisfying post status as far as moving users back to their restore groups?

[Paul M]

Yes.

[OhSoBlonde]

Paul...I love this, but I seem to be having one persistent issue even though I've tried all the suggestions listed in the thread.

When a user is moved from our Super Registered (UG #14) to Lurker (UG #15), when they come back, they are getting the "Banned" message and an Admin has to manually move them. Any additional tricks I can try to remedy this?

THANX!!

[Paul M]

What group are you restoring them to ?

[OhSoBlonde]

UG #2...lol Ok...I see the problem. Jeez...the blonde is really showing!