Miserable Users

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Here is a 3.5 version of the ever popular "miserable users" hack. Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. Based on the original idea & hack for vb2 by Zzed, and the vb3 port by KuraFire.

When classed as miserable, a member suffers ;

1. Slow response (time delay) on every page (20 to 60 seconds default).
2. A chance they will get the "server busy" message (50% by default).
3. A chance that no search facilities will be available (75% by default).
4. A chance they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).
5. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).
6. Post flood limit increased by a defined factor (10 times by default).
7. If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.

Note: All the above options are set in the vBulletin Options.

To install this hack simply download the xml file to your pc and then import it into vbulletin as a product - then create your 'miserable users' usergroup and set the value of this group, and your preferred other settings, in the hacks settings area (vBulletin Oprions > Miserable Users). To make a member suffer just edit their profile to add them to the miserable users group (it will work as either the primary group or as a secondary group).



History:

v2.01 - Released as a product - all settings are in the vB options.
v2.02 - Added option for multiple usergroups to be defined as miserable.
v2.03 - Added option for IP addresses to be defined as miserable.
v2.04 - Updated multiple usergroups code.
v2.05 : Minor changes, no update necessary.

[Oblivion Knight]

Updated.. Cheers Paul.!

[utw-Mephisto]

WOW - NICE plugin Teasing already one annoying guy

[Milesian]

I deleted the old plugin and uploaded the new one.
It is now showing in the plugin manager without a title and doesn't seem to be attached to a known hook. Also, I can't see any "Miserable User" options in vBulletin Options

[Milesian]

Never mind, solved it

[Zelda-King]

I've been using various versions of this since vB2. Anyway, for some reason, trying to login as a miserable user results in the following error;

<!--
Database error in vBulletin 3.5.0 Release Candidate 3:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT text, languageid
FROM phrase
WHERE phrasetypeid = 1000
AND varname = 'toobusy' AND languageid IN (-1, 0, 1);

MySQL Error : Lost connection to MySQL server during query
Error Number : 2013
Date : Thursday, September 22nd 2005 @ 08:55:37 AM
(etc)
-->

I have tested this with all other plugins/products disabled and the board I'm testing this on has no edited source files.

This is something that only happened since I upgraded to vB 3.5.

[Paul M]

<i>Lost connection to MySQL server during query</i> ? - that's a mysql connection failure.

Probably worth checking that you do have the "toobusy" phrase (it's a default vb phrase).

[Zelda-King]

I just checked and I do have the toobusy phrase.

Yes, weird that isn't it?

[ajpritch]

Is there a way to install this twice? So I could have two different user groups with different settings?

[Paul M]

Not really, no.

[Vtec44]

Maybe if the code can be modified to accept more than 1 user group ID's...