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

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by MaDCaT75

Anyone figured out a way to put it in the mod CP?

theyd need to be able to edit users

[SloppyGoat]

I absolutely love this hack!!!! This has got to be the best damn hack I've ever seen!!! *Goes to click install button!* LOL

[y2krazy]

I just installed the hack on 2.3.0, but when I go to edit a user, I don't see anything about making them "miserable". How would I go about making them a miserable user?

-y2k-

[SloppyGoat]

There should be a yes/no checkbox in your admin CP, under the user's settings.

[y2krazy]

There are no checkboxes in my entire Edit User page in the ACP. Not a single checkbox for anything. Anyone know why it wouldn't be showing up?

-y2k-

[SloppyGoat]

Originally Posted by y2krazy

There are no checkboxes in my entire Edit User page in the ACP. Not a single checkbox for anything. Anyone know why it wouldn't be showing up?

Do what? You're not even on the right page then!

AdminCP > Users > Find > List all users (or specify search) > Edit

There should be all kinds of check boxes, groups and permissions info in there. If you're an admin, you really should know this.

[Rob Weaver]

Sounds like a similar problem to mine. I can't see any place to make someone 'miserable'.

[y2krazy]

Originally Posted by SloppyGoat

Do what? You're not even on the right page then!

That is the what I meant by "Edit User" page...

Edit User - y2krazy (userid: 1) <- the heading of the main table to edit the user. That is the location I was looking for this "checkbox", and it's still nowhere to be found...

I am guessing that it has something to do with the admin/user.php edits, maybe?

-y2k-

[Boofo]

Then you might have missed a step. Re-check the code and see if it shows up in there.

[SloppyGoat]

Maybe I misunderstood. You said there were no checkboxes, right? None at all? Or did you mean only the miserable user box? If the miserable user box is missing, then you missed something. Go through every step again. I usually try it four times before I decide a hack just isn't working on my board. That way, I figure, there's no possible way I could've screwed up that many times. :nervous: :lick: