Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Advanced Flood Control

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|| Advanced Flood Control
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|| Author : Anton Kanevsky
|| Works on : vBulletin 3.5.x - 3.8.x
|| Released : Jun 29, 2009
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|| Time required to install: ~30 seconds
|| Difficulty: easy
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DESCRIPTION

This hack gives you a couple of advanced post flood control settings.

STATISTICS

File Uploads: 1
Products to Install: 1


FEATURES

• Allows you to control flood check time on a per-usergroup basis.
• Optional "Dynamic Flood Control Time", using which an admin may specify an extended number of seconds for users who have posted X or more posts in Y hours.

VERSION HISTORY

1.1.0
[+] The product is now officially compatible with 3.5.x - 3.8.x.
[+] Simplified a few phrases.

1.0.1
[+] The product is now officially compatible with 3.6.
[F] Corrected a minor typo.

1.0.0
Initial Version

The installation manual is contained within the attached file.

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[SoftWareRevue]

I'd really like to use this as a promotion.

Example:
xx posts = xx time between posts
xxx posts = less time between posts
xxxx posts = even less time between posts

I've set up user groups with promotions based on post count. Problem is, it doesn't work as an Additional Group. It only works if the promotion moves the member to the new user group as the Primary Usergroup. I can't really have that, for numerous reasons.

Anyone have any ideas how to set this up using promotions as an additional user group? Is it possible?

[donal]

Presently only Admins and Mods are exempted from flood control. How can I include some more groups to the exemption list. I want to add my donors group to be exempted.

[jeriddian]

I have installed this mod on my board, and it seems to install fine in terms of adding the proper radio buttons in the admincp. But it does not seem to work. Whatever time limit I set my individual usergoups, they are still stuck at the global setting. It seems the global setting is overiding this mod, which of course makes no sense, but in any case it's not working at all. Any ideas or suggestions as to why? It seems that the global flood control overrides it instead of the other way around.

[nickwilliams99]

can i use this so that at peak time it only stops letting guests in??

[mmorse]

Planning for future upgrade - compatibility with 3.8? (Currently using 3.6 so apologies if some of this was already built-in to later versions.)

[Stifmeister2]

Originally Posted by mmorse

Planning for future upgrade - compatibility with 3.8? (Currently using 3.6 so apologies if some of this was already built-in to later versions.)

Works fine in my 3.8.1.

[Mont]

Thanks for a great add on. To clarify the install a bit, the file in the uploads folder has to be manually FTP'd into the listed folder of your forums and then you use the hook system to install the mod. It works great and has solved a lot of problems with abusive users. They get frustrated and go somewhere else.

[oulman]

Any way to set this option for Moderators and Higher rank holders?