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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[ArchAngelz]

Following up from this comment, I was also wondering if we could have an option to flag lurkers and inactives as a secondary group; leaving the Primary as Registered Members or whatever it used to be?

Originally Posted by Boots

Any chance of adding that ability? I'd like to be able to flag lurkers with an additional usergroup so I can treat them differently but it would break everything if I changed their primary group.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Ken Sanders

Wow! Exactly what I need! Will this work with 4.0.3? If so, count me in and I'll happily donate!
Managing users has been a real pain.

It will work with any 4.0.x version.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by ArchAngelz

Following up from this comment, I was also wondering if we could have an option to flag lurkers and inactives as a secondary group; leaving the Primary as Registered Members or whatever it used to be?

Sorry, this is for primary usergroup only, and thats unlikely to change.

[Ken Sanders]

Nice mod. Many thanks. Marked as installed, nominated and donated

[Adam H]

Has there been any reports of this mod telling members they are banned and changing their usergroups to Administrators ? I use this on most of my forums however a client has used it and has come up against this problem , the problems didnt start until this was installed , just trying to figure out whether the mod could possibly do it or has whether someone has been playing some other settings

[Paul M]

Well in theory this could move you to a banned or admin group - if you were silly enough to set it up to do that.

[KissOfDeath]

thanks for the mod,
can i make a request though?
is it possible to auto move users after making 3 or 5 new posts instead of just 1?
i foresee that a lurker will make a post asking why he's been moved to the lurker usergroup or has decreased permission settings, then being automatically returned back to the member user group when they havn't really contributed to the forums...

[Paul M]

No, thats not possible without re-designing they way it works - it doesnt count posts, simply checks if one has been made.

[pant]

Installed and rated.

This is evry handy to use on conjumction with User Promotions.

Feature Request. Do be able to set multiple Inactive/Lurker rules.

Thanks
Stuart

[pant]

Originally Posted by KissOfDeath

thanks for the mod,
can i make a request though?
is it possible to auto move users after making 3 or 5 new posts instead of just 1?
i foresee that a lurker will make a post asking why he's been moved to the lurker usergroup or has decreased permission settings, then being automatically returned back to the member user group when they havn't really contributed to the forums...

This would also be good but I'm happy with the way that it works at the moment anyway.