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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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

[lcn]

Unsure if this is compatible with vBulletin 4.1.10

[bperkins88]

lol this is a sweet mod

[AJwcf]

Umm.. Not sure how to say this other than, it doesn't work for me.

Running vbulletin 4.1.8, made the usergroups, had the add on active for more than 10 days with the limits set to 5, and nothing has happened, not one member moved to lurker or inactive?

Any idea why this would just not be working at all? As far as I can tell the Daily CleanUp is on and working fine each day.

[Paul M]

I cant answer that without access - but a first test would be to manually run the daily cron.

[griffinpower]

I have installed this but it fails to move the users back to the original group after they come back and login and post.

[Rckcrwlr]

Is there a way to manually run it?

[Paul M]

Manually run the Daily Update scheduled task.

[Budget101]

Any way to get 1 of the Previous versions when this was still compatible with 4.0.x??

[Paul M]

Sorry, its no longer available.

However, I dont think there is much difference (if any).

[alfanexus]

Will users be markes as inactive or lurkers if they only post in blogs?