Inactive User Management

Inactive User Management
Description

This Hack lets you automatically prune inactive Users based on several conditions.
It can be configured in ACP / vBulletin Options / vBulletin Options / Inactive User Management.

Details
1 Product XML with 1 Plugin, 4 Phrases and 5 Settings

History
1.0.0
Initial Version

1.0.0 Build 2
Fixed 2 Phrases

1.0.0 Build 3
Fixed broken query in uninstall code

Warning
This Hack is Beta, provided AS-IS.
I take no responsibility, whatever might appen when using this.

I strongly recommend NOT to use this in a production environment!

Please only click Install if you actually have installed/are using this Hack, and click Uninstall whan you don't use it any longer!

[Boss-Hog]

Originally Posted by Andreas

Normally, it should not happen that users are tagged incorrectly.
What are your exact settings?

Andreas,

Six days ago, I had increased the inactivity amount from the default (180 days) to 365 and saved my settings. The cron processed its daily job and shortly aferwards, I noticed that that this setting had somehow been changed from 365 to 0, which resulted in users being incorrectly tagged for deletion. I have since changed it back to 180 and that value is being retained. On 11/9, I can see from the cron log that a large amount of users were tagged for deletion in 7 days, which is what that value is set at, based on the 0 value that had been in there at the time. Even though I have changed this back to 180, how do I avoid these users that were tagged for deletion when the value was 0 from being deleted after 7 days? Thank you.

[Andreas]

Setting either interval to 0 is kinda pointless

Anyway, I changed to code to do nothing in this case.

[Boss-Hog]

Originally Posted by Andreas

Setting either interval to 0 is kinda pointless

Anyway, I changed to code to do nothing in this case.

Right, I didn't actually set it to 0 - somehow, the value was changed from 365 to 0. In any event, how do I remove the users that were marked for deletion during the time the value was 0?

[Andreas]

The cronjob will remove tagged users automatically, as this is what this Hack is for.

[Boss-Hog]

Originally Posted by Andreas

The cronjob will remove tagged users automatically, as this is what this Hack is for.

But since these users were incorrectly tagged (due to the days being set at 0) how can I have the cron NOT delete them, since they are truly not inactive users?

[dcpaq2xx]

Has anyone talked to the Vbulletin staff about this idea yet?

This would be an awesome feature to have come standard with Vbulletin.

Doug

[dcpaq2xx]

Does anyone have anything new to report on this mod?

If the majority of the "bugs" have been worked out id be willing to try it out myself.

Again this would be an excellent feature to come standard with Vbulletin.

If only the developers at VB would bit.

Doug

[matthias.m]

I think, that we can not use this Hack for vB 3.5.x???

Greetings,
Matthias

[dcpaq2xx]

I dont see why we couldnt use it.

Anyone else know?

Doug

[matthias.m]

It works on vB 3.5.3!

But other Question: This Hack taggs Users as inactive if they don`t log in after the specified amount of Days.

On my Board i will need a Hack that marks Users as inactive if they haven`t postet a amount of X Posts in the last Y Days - is this possible?

Greetings,
Matthias