An alternative to banning: Miserable Users

This hack is an alternative to banning a user. As the name suggests a user who
gets hit with this hack will become truly miserable while trying to access
your board.

So here is what really happens to a miserable user:

- There is a random 60-120 second delay each time they click on a link.
- 90% of times they have no search engine acccess.
- 75% of the times they get the server too busy error.

If they don't get the server too busy error:
- 50% of the times they may get a blank page
- 30% of the times they may get forwarded to the forum main page
- 20% of the time they may be able to see the page they asked for.

after doing all the math in actuality they have only a 5% chance of seeing the
page they clicked on. What kills them is the time they have to wait before
anything happens.

I actually once tracked a miserable user and watched him suffer for 2 whole
hours before he was able to make a simple post.

This hack is considered one of the most sadistic hacks on my board.

The hack allows you to make your user miserable via the admin CP. It also
allows you to search for all miserable users through the admin CP as well.

Also in showthread.php, it appends a red status that is only visibly to admins
and mods stating that a user is miserable.


Tables affected by this hack: user

Files affected by this hack: global.php, showthread.php, admin/user.php

[Keyser S?ze]

is there anyway to remove the red text? i dont want ppl relizeing they are banned (miserable)

[MaDCaT75]

The people dont know that they are miserable.... only mods and admins can see the red text.

And also they will think its a problem with the forum server when trying to go anywhere.

[Keyser S?ze]

is there any way to make it so only admins see it? not mods

[Blue91]

Hello all,

Great hack... I just installed it and tested it, and it works GREAT! However!!!.... when I click on a thread, at the top of the page, on every post, this is there....

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/virtual/site341/fst/var/www/html/forums/global.php:395) in /home/virtual/site341/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/functions.php on line 1573

I looked at the lines listed in each file and both are a simple " } " on a line all by itself.

How do I fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

[Blue91]

NM, fixed it. Just uploaded the original global.php again from the zip and redid the changes specified, and all seems fine now. Wierd.

Anyways, GREAT HACK!

[maestrosdelweb]

It seems like an efective way to get rid of some of my not useful users.

Thanks for the great hack.

[weewilly]

All I can say about this hack is....

Awesome!
*clicks install

[PAINTBALLM]

hey man since you wrote this hack, I wanted to know if you or someone could modify it so when they try to access your site, it loads a 2 frame page, the top frame saying "you are banned, while you are banned you are only able to see our sponsors websites, and you will not have access to our forums until your ban is up". And then it lets them pick from a drop down of sponsors which it would load in the bottom frame.. I think that would be a great addition to this hack

[syedakm]

I am getting the following error when i type the MySQL error, need help

syntax error near unexpected token 'smallint(5'

[MrNase]

it may have been mentioned: great!!!!

thank you sooo much