Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

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Same plug-in found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=125871

There are no differences as this plug-in works with the 3.5, 3.6 or 3.7 releases of vBulletin.

If you are like me and migrated from .threads, a common modification was an "AE detector", a simple mod that saved a cookie of a history of ids logged into on your site. If someone logged into more than one account, you got a PM letting you know that your site was being accessed from multiple accounts.

Over the years this was very helpful in identifying users who were posting under multiple accounts (alter-egos!) and users who would return after being banned.

You might be wondering why I don't use the vbcookie call - well, thats because on logout all vB cookies are cleared, so we need to store a cookie that is not effected by the login/logout process.

New Installation
1. Add New Product with attached XML
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> AE Multiple Login Detection Settings and set your specific settings.

Time to install: Easy - 2 minutes.

Upgrade
If you installed this as a Plug-in manually, you can delete that plugin and install this Product, just make sure to go into the Options and set them accordingly.

I hope you find this useful and will click INSTALL if you use it; should it prove useful to enough people I can look at making this installation more automated without the need for edits and an Admin Options page.

To upgrade you will want to reimport this XML file and edit your options accordingly.

1.0.3
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. Added a check to ensure that users weren't deleted when reporting violations
. added htmlspecialchars_uni call to username

Note: I am unable to get the call to construct_phrase with $vbphrase['multiplelogin_alert'] to work reliably, as such the $message variable is still set manually inside the plug-in and not via the phrase. If anyone has an idea of why this might not always work, I'm all ears.

1.0.2
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. Updated to include exclusion groups, users
. Changed so PM is sent by ae sender id

1.0.1
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. Released as a Product (thank you PHPGeek2k3 for your help)
. Added option to post to a forum versus send a PM (or both)
. All settings moved into Admin Option

1.0.0
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Initial release.

[exportforce]

I have a request.
Would it be possible to auto BAN! those who are declared by AE ?
I would really need that. I get sometimes multiple registrations up to 10 times from one person

[Jah-Hools]

I could do with some advice on how to interpret the data produced.

This had revealed some multiple ID's of known forum troublemakers... and thats been v handy..

But for many of the other reports... I often cant find anything sinister or suspect about the forum use of the two ID's...?

So .. What do I do in these cases? Any suggestions? How are you folks using it?

I like (love?) the plug in :up: - but seek power user tips for its use

Many thanks

[Videx]

Auto-banning an AE trip would be silly, as 99% of them are innocent.

We only take action if a tripper starts participating as multiple users in discussions. And then only if we're convinced from their grammar it's the same person.

[exportforce]

Originally Posted by Videx

Auto-banning an AE trip would be silly, as 99% of them are innocent.

We only take action if a tripper starts participating as multiple users in discussions. And then only if we're convinced from their grammar it's the same person.

In my Case I check EVERYONE! and AE was until today ALWAYS! right. Never got a false one.
Even if it would be optional, I really want it.

[Videx]

I didn't say it "wasn't right". I said most of the trips are not miscreants and shouldn't be banned. The few rare ones should be dealt with on an individual basis.

I mean, if a husband and wife trip, why the heck would you want to ban both of them???

[Jah-Hools]

Originally Posted by exportforce

In my Case I check EVERYONE! and AE was until today ALWAYS! right. Never got a false one.
Even if it would be optional, I really want it.

I would like to learn how people are checking the member registrations once they show up in AE.

What is your checking system? What is the procedure you go through?

Thanks

[Markos]

would there be anyway to put them to Users to Moderate insted of them getting registerd so u can check them out befour they can spam you're forum ?

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Markos

would there be anyway to put them to Users to Moderate insted of them getting registerd so u can check them out befour they can spam you're forum ?

You've misinterpreted this mod completely. It works by checking *logging in* users (against a cookie). This is not a pre-registration anti spam mod.

[Markos]

aa right do u know of any mod that dose this ??

[exportforce]

Originally Posted by Jah-Hools

I would like to learn how people are checking the member registrations once they show up in AE.

What is your checking system? What is the procedure you go through?

Thanks

I check afterwards with some other logging tools I wrote for myself.
But I would really need that AE-Ban.
I get users that really love to do themself 2-8 Accounts and I don't want to ban every single one of them. Most record is an User with 43 Accounts, about 3 weeks ago