Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Move inactive users to new usergroup

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

If a member has not visited the forum for a defined number of days (180 by default) then they will be moved from their existing usergroup to another usergroup (this can be any existing usergroup, however, you should really create a new 'Inactive users' group - esp if you use the auto-restore option).

Only members of a defined list of usergroups are checked for inactivity.

If a member of the inactive usergroup returns to the forum, and auto-restore is enabled, they are automatically restored to another defined usergroup (by default this is usergroup 2, Registered Users).

Note: The move of inactive users is done once per day as part of the daily update cron job.


History:

v3.8.001 : First Release for vB 3.8.

[el7yaah]

Thank you

[Smitty]

I have been using the 3.7 version and it appears to work OK *except* that it does not change their User Title back to 'Registered' when someone returns. It continues to say 'Inactive'.

[Matt Slick]

I installed the program two days ago. I could not figure out how to set the right group ID in Inactive Users. Sorry, couldn't find any directions but have since figured out how to set the right usergroup ID. I created an "Inactive Group" with ID number 24. Number 9 group did not exist on our boards and still doesn't. I don't know why.

So, the system ran and moved a TON of users inot the ADMIN account! Panic!

We can't remove them from the admin area unless we do it one at a time and we have about 30,000 users moved to the admin category. Bad! Apparently, there are default permissions for an administrator group that the system will not permit removing, such as viewing Admin panel.

Mass prune users is not permitted for Administrator group so we cannot move them all out of default admin group.

How do we get these people OUT of the default Admin group? Can't prune them.

We've had a few inactive users sign back in and they are NOT moved back to the registered users category.

This is a huge problem. My boards have 1.5 million posts. Am I going to have to start all over?

Please help.

[Paul M]

It can only move users to the group you set in the options, so you must have set it to your admin group.

You can force it to move them to a different group by editing the settings, and then manually running it.

Inactive members who sign back in will only get moved back if you have enabled that option, and they are currently in the group defined as the inactive group.

[Matt Slick]

We have it set to move users to #24 which is the Inactive Users group. But, it doesn't work. also, it hasn't reinstituted them to the original group once they sign in.

How do I force them to move? I mean, how do I manually run the "cron"?

I'd be willing to give you admin access to our boards so you could take a look. Sorry, but I'm lost on this thing and we really need it fixed... can you help?

[Paul M]

Send me a PM with access details.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by Smitty

I have been using the 3.7 version and it appears to work OK *except* that it does not change their User Title back to 'Registered' when someone returns. It continues to say 'Inactive'.

Bump. I did just update (overwrite) to the 3.8 version.

[gcgMurphy]

Some people are saying that this mod is of no use. They couldn’t be more wrong. For instance, if a user registered just so he could fill out a profile with a link to his site this mod can automatically move him into a usergroup that doesn’t show on the memberlist thereby not letting him use your site just to promote his. So either he will at least have to visit your site occasionally or he will lose his link.

I’m sure there are many more uses but other than housekeeping, this is what I use it for.

Thanks Paul.

[Dulce]

PM me if you can do something similar with posting in a certain time limit, and what your rates would be.

[aztecboi2003]

I was using this mod and it works very well. But I installed this mod here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=213166 and it made all the Inactive members appear on the staff page.