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UPDATED!!! AGAIN!

This is a more effective solution than the standard "ban", and is meant to be used for very annoying troublemakers that keeps re-registering once banned. Anyway - once a user is placed under the "Hellban", the following happens:

1. Every 3:d time the user tries to load a page, he is greeted with a fake "500 Internal Server Error" message.

2. Nobody but moderators and the user himself can see his posts. He is, essentially, under a site-wide ignore.

This may not be a 100% fail-safe solution, but a lot of the morons will hopefully get tired and go away.

Here is how it's done:

1. Run the following query on your database:

INSERT INTO usergroup VALUES("666","Hellban","","0","1","1","1","1","0", "1","0","0","0","1","1","1","1","0","0","1","1","1 ","0","0","1","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","1") ;
ALTER TABLE post ADD hellban INT UNSIGNED;
ALTER TABLE thread ADD hellban INT UNSIGNED;

2. Add this at the bottom of you global.php

PHP Code:


			
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 666) {

  

  $randnum = mt_rand(1,3);

  if ($randnum == 1) {

    header("HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error");

    exit;

  }   



}

3. Find this in newreply.php:

PHP Code:


			
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,attachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title))."','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($postusername))."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconid','$visible')");

REPLACE it with this:

PHP Code:


			
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroup] == 666) {

  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,attachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible,hellban) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title))."','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($postusername))."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconid','$visible','$bbuserinfo[userid]')");

} else {

  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,attachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title))."','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($postusername))."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconid','$visible')");

}

4. find this in newthread.php

PHP Code:


			
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastposter,dateline,iconid,visible,attach) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".time()."','$forumid','1','0','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".addslashes($postusername)."','".time()."','$iconid','$visible','$attachcount')");

PHP Code:


			
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroup] == 666) {

  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastposter,dateline,iconid,visible,attach,hellban) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".time()."','$forumid','1','0','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".addslashes($postusername)."','".time()."','$iconid','$visible','$attachcount','$bbuserinfo[userid]')");

} else {

  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO thread (threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,postusername,postuserid,lastposter,dateline,iconid,visible,attach) VALUES (NULL,'".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".time()."','$forumid','1','0','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".addslashes($postusername)."','".time()."','$iconid','$visible','$attachcount')"); 

}

in that file, also find this:

PHP Code:


			
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,attachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconid','1')");

PHP Code:


			
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroup] == 666) {

  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,attachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible,hellban) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconid','1','$bbuserinfo[userid]')");

} else {

  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,attachmentid,pagetext,allowsmilie,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($subject))."','".addslashes($postusername)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($message)."','$allowsmilie','$signature','$ipaddress','$iconid','1')");

}

After that, find this:

PHP Code:


			
if ($visible==1) {

        $DB_site->query("UPDATE forum SET replycount=replycount+1,threadcount=threadcount+1,lastpost='".time()."',lastposter='".addslashes($postusername)."' WHERE forumid IN ($foruminfo[parentlist])");

}

and replace with this:

PHP Code:


			
if ($visible==1 && $bbuserinfo[usergroup] != 666) {

  $DB_site->query("UPDATE forum SET replycount=replycount+1,threadcount=threadcount+1,lastpost='".time()."',lastposter='".addslashes($postusername)."' WHERE forumid IN ($foruminfo[parentlist])");

}

I showthread.php, find this:

PHP Code:


			
  $getpostids=$DB_site->query(" 

    SELECT post.postid FROM post

    WHERE post.threadid='$threadid' AND post.visible=1 

    ORDER BY dateline $postorder LIMIT ".($limitlower-1).",$perpage 

  ");

Replace with this:

PHP Code:


			
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 666 || ismoderator($forumid)) {

  

  $getpostids=$DB_site->query(" 

    SELECT post.postid FROM post

    WHERE post.threadid='$threadid' AND post.visible=1 AND post.hellban = '$bbuserinfo[userid]'

    ORDER BY dateline $postorder LIMIT ".($limitlower-1).",$perpage 

  ");  

  

} else {



$getpostids=$DB_site->query(" 

    SELECT post.postid FROM post

    WHERE post.threadid='$threadid' AND post.visible=1 AND post.hellban = NULL

    ORDER BY dateline $postorder LIMIT ".($limitlower-1).",$perpage 

");



}

in forumdisplay.php, find this:

PHP Code:


			
    $getthreadids=$DB_site->query("

    SELECT

    ".iif($sortfield=="voteavg",$votequery,"")."

        thread.threadid

    FROM thread

    WHERE thread.forumid = $foruminfo[forumid]

        AND thread.sticky=0

        AND thread.visible=1

    $datecut

    $limitothers

      ORDER BY sticky DESC, $sortfield $sqlsortorder

      LIMIT ".($sel_limitlower-1).",$perpage");

Replace that with this:

PHP Code:


			
if ($bbuserinfo[usergroup] == 666) {

  $getthreadids=$DB_site->query("

    SELECT

    ".iif($sortfield=="voteavg",$votequery,"")."

        thread.threadid

    FROM thread

    WHERE thread.forumid = $foruminfo[forumid]

        AND thread.sticky=0

        AND thread.visible=1

        AND thread.hellban = NULL

        AND thread.hellban = '$bbuserinfo[userid]'

    $datecut

    $limitothers

      ORDER BY sticky DESC, $sortfield $sqlsortorder

      LIMIT ".($sel_limitlower-1).",$perpage");

      

} else {

  

    $getthreadids=$DB_site->query("

    SELECT

    ".iif($sortfield=="voteavg",$votequery,"")."

        thread.threadid

    FROM thread

    WHERE thread.forumid = $foruminfo[forumid]

        AND thread.sticky=0

        AND thread.visible=1

    $datecut

    $limitothers

      ORDER BY sticky DESC, $sortfield $sqlsortorder

      LIMIT ".($sel_limitlower-1).",$perpage");

  

}

Now, whenever you want to get rid of a user, simply set him or her to usergroup Hellban.

Overgrow · #22 03-02-2002, 11:58 AM

I did a quick & dirty hack that has much of the same effect but without the query JOIN -- (removes a person's posts but lets them see 'em normally so they don't know what happened)...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=35589

Freddie Bingham · #23 03-02-2002, 03:59 PM

JOINS are only a problem if the field(s) you are joining are not-indexed.

Overgrow · #24 03-02-2002, 04:08 PM

Freddie, you so smart... and it appears usergroupid is already indexed. So his original showthread join with the user would not have been a problem eh? Sorry intellected! I see you already changed it to use a new field, post.hellban. If the original way really didn't add much overhead, it was probably the more elegant solution rather than adding a new field to post.

Freddie Bingham · #25 03-02-2002, 10:30 PM

I don't know, I didn't look at his code so I have no comment on it's effectiveness at utilizing the database.

Jawelin · #26 04-19-2002, 10:42 AM

I think the usergroup is already read at showpost / newreply / newthread time.
So there is that info at postbit level, and we can use it without adding the hellban field to post & thread tables.

What do you think about ?
Thnx

FFMania · #27 05-06-2002, 10:28 AM

Same thing.....same error....can't get the query to work....help plz?

GenSec · #28 05-13-2002, 02:10 PM

I like hellban idea, but there is another way.
If you created 666 usergroup you find in admin/ functions.php

PHP Code:


			
    if (!$ignore[$post[userid]]) {

        eval("\$retval = \"".gettemplate("postbit")."\";");

    } else {

        eval("\$retval = \"".gettemplate("postbit_ignore")."\";");

    }

add below

PHP Code:


			
    if ($post[usergroupid]==666 AND $bbuserinfo[usergroupid]!=666) {

           eval("\$retval = \"".gettemplate("postbit_ignore")."\";");

    }

and all your hellbanned user are on common ignore list.

Or change postbit_ignore template for more suited.

Brad · #29 05-31-2002, 03:20 AM

Quote:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.5:

Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO usergroup VALUES("666","Ultimate ban","","0","1","1","1","1","0","1","0","0","0","1 ","1","1","1","0","0","1","1","1","0","0","1","0", "0","0","0","0","0","0","0","1");

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near ';
' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 31st of May 2002 05:20:26 AM
Script: http://www.kousetsu.net/forums/forums/admin/query.php
Referer: http://www.kousetsu.net/forums/admin/query.php?s=<?php echo 6ed374efbed9b32d097264f97d3a4586; ?>

Brad · #30 05-31-2002, 02:43 PM

n/m, got it to work in phpmyadmin

Brad · #31 06-01-2002, 07:00 AM

i found a better method if you got admins out there that like members you ban. simalar to the one above but im using it and it works
in functions.php

find

PHP Code:


			
if (!$ignore[$post[userid]]) {

        eval("\$retval = \"".gettemplate("postbit")."\";");

    } else {

        eval("\$retval = \"".gettemplate("postbit_ignore")."\";");

    }

under add

PHP Code:


			
if ($post[userid]==*users id here* AND $bbuserinfo[userid]!=*users ID here*) {

           eval("\$retval = \"".gettemplate("postbit_ignore")."\";");

      }

replace *user id here* with their user id

then deleate everything from postbit_ignore

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