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Advanced Warning System (AWS)
Version: 3.4.16, by sv1cec sv1cec is offline
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Released: 11-20-2004 Last Update: 08-30-2005 Installs: 256
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Advanced Warning System Version 3.5.0

The AWS version for vB 3.5 has been released. You can download it and get support in this thread:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=770032


Advanced Warning System Version 3.4.16 (latest stable release for vB 3.0.x)


LATEST ANNOUNCEMENT

The AWS has its own Premium Forum here at vBulletin.org, so please use that for questions and discussion on this hack.

The Permium Forum is located at :

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=105





This Warning System owes its existence to Zero Tolerance's Warning Hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=65336). I liked the idea, so I installed Zero's hack in my forums site. However, as in most cases, I was not fully satisfied with the way it worked, so I started customizing it. Other people in the thread above, asked questions, which I had already answered by my customizing work, so I answered, giving away those parts of the code, that I had modified.

In the long run, I almost hijacked the thread and the hack from Zero, so I guess I owe him an apology. However, the mods I did have compiled a new, more complete warning system, with much more functionality. Several members from that thread, asked if this could be released as a new hack, so after discussing it with Zero, here it is.

What it does? Well, it is a Warning System, which means it allows you (the administrative team of your site, in other words the admins, the supermods and the mods), to define offences, which the members of your forum should NOT commit. But as we all know, there are instances where members do not follow the rules. In that case, this warning system, allows you to issue a warning to the member who commited the offence. The warning has some points associated with it, as well as a period over which it is valid. When a member gathers enough points, he is banned from your forums, for a predefined period of time. That's mostly it, but below, you can find a short list of features:

Full warning system with:

- post- and non-post-related warnings
- hierarchical warning schema
- hidden or real warners
- customizable maximum warning points
- automatically bans members who reached the maximum warning points
- customizable ban days
- customizable ban user group and permanent ban user group
- customizable restore user group, where users are restored after they get unbanned
- customizable option for who can see the warning level of the members
- automatically issued warnings for posts which contain censored words
- automatically issued warnings for private messages which contain censored words
- supports incremental banning periods
- supports multiple warnings for the same post
- warned members are notified either by Private Message or e-mail when they are warned and when one of the warnings they have received is either deleted or expired
- maintains historical listings of issued warnings (even if deleted or expired)
- customizable warning types
- each warning type has predefined warning points associated with it
- each warning type has predefined maturity period, after which it is automatically deleted
- reports for admin, mods and members
- cron job included to automatically remove matured warnings
- uses vBulletin's cron job, to automatically unban banned users
- all options are setable in your AdminCP
- user warning points and number of bans viewable in your AdminCP User Manager.
- statistics show warning per type, warnings per warner, bans per user.
- Allows you to warn a user from your AdminCP/User Manager.
- Large "Warn" sign, in posts which have received a warning, for mods, supermods and admins, to easily distinguish those posts.
- Ability to remove user's avatar, signature or usage of the Private Messaging system, depending on the warning points he has collected.
- Supports non-standard admins, supermods and mods user groups.
- Allows you to save a copy of the warning send to the warned user, in a predefined forum.
- Allows you to issue "Alerts" (warnings without warning points, for first-time offenders)
- Allows you to add private or public notes for a user, either post-specific or not. Notes appear in the postbit, above each user's message.
- etc.

Admitedly, this is not an easy hack to install. It requires 20 new templates and modifications to some existing ones too. It requires five new tables and modifications to some others. It requires several new phrases. I've tried to make the installation, as easy as I could, by automating certain tasks in an automatic installer. The installer will add the new templates for you, add the new tables required and change the existing ones, and will add the required new phrases. You will have to manually edit the existing templates and the php files though. I also included an upgrade script, which will upgrade those who are using Zero Tolerance's warning hack (version 1.5) to this one. An uninstaller is also included, which removes what the installer installs.

Please keep in mind, that this is a very difficult hack to install. For this reason, I strongly recommend that you back up your database before starting the installation. I also suggest that you keep copies of each file and template you edit, so that you can always revert to a previous stable condition. Finally, I strongly suggest that you always run the latest release.

The zip file always contains both the instructions and the files required to install the latest version. If you have installed a previous version and want to upgrade to the latest, there is a text file attached, in the zip with upgrade instructions. Follow them.

In this thread, you will also find a more detailed document describing the features of this hack, as well as a document describing its version evolution.

Also keep in mind that the installer, will add the AWS templates only to your default style. If you want to use them in another one, you may try this Zero Tolerance's hack, which copies the templates to other styles you may have.

Another thing, the installation instructions were written when vB was at release 3.0.3, so you may expect to find some differences, with the latest files and templates. As far as I can tell, I haven't faced any such case, but I post this reservation here, since I do not have the time to recheck all the instructions for compliance with the latest vB release. The hack has been installed and is working fine with the vBulletin version shown at the top of this thread.

Finally, if you are using more than one style, the installer will install the templates only in the default one. If you want to use the rest of your styles, here is a hack, that will do this for you.

This hack can also be integrated with Zero Tolerance's vBChat. However, since I am using a heavily-modified version of vBChat, I haven't included instructions, on how to patch the original vBChat files, in the documentation. If you are interested in having AWS issue automatic warnings when one of your user enters a censored word in a vBChat message, or if you want your moderators to be able to warn a user, who misbehaves in vBChat, please post a thread in this forum and I'll help you through.

This is my first officially released hack, so please don't be to harsh with me, if I broke any rules or made any mistakes. The mods have been tested extensively, both by me and two volunteers (thank you gentlemen), but I am only human.

Closing, let me thank Zero Tolerance, who got me started in this, and who owns a big part of the code of this hack. I definnitely couldn't have done it, without his code.

Special Note
For those who upgrade from Zero Tolerance's hack to my AWS, even though I have included a script which will do some of the work automatically, not everything is done by that script. Read the installation instructions carefully. You have to run the upgrade script first and then do several things manually. If you just run the upgrade script and just upload the files, the AWS will not work properly. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to post here.

Also, let me add here, that version 3.3.0 wouldn't have been possible without the contribution of Revan.

And a couple of warnings:

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE LATEST ZIP FILE FROM HERE, BEFORE YOU START INSTALLING THIS HACK. JUST BECAUSE YOU DOWNLOADED IT A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, THAT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS THE LATEST VERSION. MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE ZIP, JUST BEFORE YOU START INSTALLING THIS HACK.


LATEST VERSION

Version 3.4.16 (released Thursday August 25th, 2005 GMT 18:18)

A couple of bugs fixed in this version. One is related to the Notes feature, and it allowed plain users to see the notes entered, if the "Who can view warning points" setting was set to "All".

Features.txt a new version of this file has been uploaded on April 4th2 005 GMT 09:30, which covers the latest additions to the hack. The original Features.txt file hasn't been updated since the first release of this hack, so it was time for an update.

John

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Old 11-24-2004, 12:28 PM
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Gentlemen,

My apologies, there were indeed some mistakes in the upgrade_warn.php file, which is used to upgrade from Zero Tolerance's Warning Hack V.1.5 to my Advanced Warning System (latest release).

I corrected those mistakes and improved the appearance of the program a little. I managed to test it on my Sun, but one thing I couldn't test, was the database tables changes. Can someone who is using Zero's hack try it and let me know it works in that part as well?

Many thanks and apologies for any inconvenience.
the current warnings don't appear in the postbit:

Warnings Level: $post[warning_level]
Number of bans: $post[warning_bans]

Why is this?
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Old 11-24-2004, 01:55 PM
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the current warnings don't appear in the postbit:

Warnings Level: $post[warning_level]
Number of bans: $post[warning_bans]

Why is this?
fixed, i didn't apply the tamplate properly, as i did install this manually.
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Old 11-24-2004, 02:50 PM
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Run the following query:

ALTER TABLE `warnings` ADD `warned_user` int(15) NOT NULL default '0'

And now that you have it right, download the latest zip and upload the files to your web server again. Did some more changes this morning.

Files you need to download, are shown at the bottom of the hack's description, at the top of every page.

Rgds

thank you thank you.

Its all working now!!
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Old 11-24-2004, 05:06 PM
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One questions

If i set the banning length to 7 days this means:

1st Ban - 7 Days
2nd Ban - 14 days
3rd Ban - PERMANENT

But what if the maturity of the ban is 30 days, does that mean the person will be banned for 30 days? or just 7? My bannign limit is 10 points and some of my warnings are for 10 points!!!
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Old 11-24-2004, 05:38 PM
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One questions

If i set the banning length to 7 days this means:

1st Ban - 7 Days
2nd Ban - 14 days
3rd Ban - PERMANENT

But what if the maturity of the ban is 30 days, does that mean the person will be banned for 30 days? or just 7? My bannign limit is 10 points and some of my warnings are for 10 points!!!
OK, let's clarify these things up:

Maturity: The period over which the points associated with a warning, affect the user's account. When the maturity period of a warning expires, then the points associated with that warning are removed.

Ban Duration: How many days a member will be banned. In order for a member to be banned, he/she has to collect the maximum warning points defined (banning limit). The initially defined ban duration, gets multiplied by the number of bans if you use incremental banning.

So the maturity of a warning does not affect the duration of the ban. If a warning carries the same number of points, as your ban limit, this means that the moment the member gets warned for that particular warning, he/she is also banned. How long will he be banned? As long as your ban period is, unless if you use incremental banning and the user has more than zero bans.

So yes, if your banning period is 7 days, first ban=7 days, second=14 days, third is permanent (if that's what you have defined in the options).

How long will those warning points remain into his account? As long as the warning maturity was, in this case 30 days. After 30 days, the warning will be removed.

You have indeed a point here. If a member commited enough offences to be banned, should after he is banned still carry the maximum warning points, and all his warnings, or shall we consider his warnings "punished" and remove them? I mean he was bad, he as punished, shall he starts at the edge again, or shall we give him/her a clean start, after he/she gets unbaned?My opinion is that the warnings and the associated points should be removed. If not we end up with someone who has 10 warning points, coming from 5 warnings, (which points if added can be more than 10) and who is not banned, even though he has the maximum warning points. You said messy? You bet.

Let me know of your opinions on this matter, I can change the hack to act in either way, depending on a Warning Option, or I can make it permanent to have the warnings removed (or made inactive), once a member is banned.

Rgds
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Old 11-24-2004, 10:17 PM
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I think the best thing for this is:

If a user is banned for 7 days (your Ban Duration is for 7 days) but has 14 warning points and the banning limit is ten, the Maturity is 30. hmmm i'm confused now, i think thewy contractdict each other and one must go!!

A better system

Instead of having the Ban Duration and variable maturity i think you should change it to a fixed maturity, where all warnings last for the same amount of time..

For example the ban limit is 10: (each warning last for 10 days)

1st warning (4 points) issued on 01/01/01 (ends on 11/01/01)
2nd warning (2 points) issued on 07/01/01 (ends on 18/01/01)
3rd warning (6 points) issued on 09/01/01 (ends on 20/01/01)

On the 09 when he gor the 3rd warnign he would have been banned, but only for 2 days as on the eleventh the 1st warning would have expired.

Taking the above into consideration, the think which is causing confusing is the ban length when you reach 10 points (or whatever your limit is) this needs to go. Simple as that. hhmmm let me think again

Nope i'm totally confused, sorry i'm posting this post anyway as its taken me about 30 min thinking!!!
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Old 11-24-2004, 10:20 PM
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I think the best thing for this is:

If a user is banned for 7 days (your Ban Duration is for 7 days) but has 14 warning points and the banning limit is ten, the Maturity is 30. hmmm i'm confused now, i think thewy contractdict each other and one must go!!

A better system

Instead of having the Ban Duration and variable maturity i think you should change it to a fixed maturity, where all warnings last for the same amount of time..

For example the ban limit is 10: (each warning last for 10 days)

1st warning (4 points) issued on 01/01/01 (ends on 11/01/01)
2nd warning (2 points) issued on 07/01/01 (ends on 18/01/01)
3rd warning (6 points) issued on 09/01/01 (ends on 20/01/01)

On the 09 when he gor the 3rd warnign he would have been banned, but only for 2 days as on the eleventh the 1st warning would have expired.

Taking the above into consideration, the think which is causing confusing is the ban length when you reach 10 points (or whatever your limit is) this needs to go. Simple as that. hhmmm let me think again

Nope i'm totally confused, sorry i'm posting this post anyway as its taken me about 30 min thinking!!!
I think you have toooooooooooo many variables!!!!

Use incremental banning periods?
Number Of Days Members Are Banned

I still think its the Warn Maturity which is confusing me!! As this can contradict the ban length.

OHHHHHH MY BRAIN!!!
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I installed this mod manually.

For some reason if I remove the quotes the query will go through like this on MySQL 4.0.20-standard / phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl2.......

Code:
CREATE TABLE `vbforum_warning_options`
But my question is this: in creating an autobot for the system warnings, you said this.....

Quote:
Save this user and then go to your vBulletin Options, Site Name/URL/Contact Details. You will find a new field there called "Message Tag".
I don't get that new field.

Where is that "Message Tag" code so I can double check if I typed/saved it correctly?

Thanks.

Chris
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I installed this mod manually.

For some reason if I remove the quotes the query will go through like this on MySQL 4.0.20-standard / phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl2.......

Code:
CREATE TABLE `vbforum_warning_options`
But my question is this: in creating an autobot for the system warnings, you said this.....


I don't get that new field.

Where is that "Message Tag" code so I can double check if I typed/saved it correctly?

Thanks.

Chris
This is done by the install_warn.php script, or described in the upgradeToLatestVersion.txt.

To check it out, you should have the following phrases created:

setting_messagetag_desc
setting_messagetag_title

And also, in your setting table, there should be a line with varname equals to 'messagetag'.

Check the install_warn.php script for the queries you can run, or read the instructions in the upgrade on how to insert it from a browser page, if you do not have the above. If you have only one or two of them, but not all, you have to run the queries for the missing ones.

Rgds
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I think you have toooooooooooo many variables!!!!

Use incremental banning periods?
Number Of Days Members Are Banned

I still think its the Warn Maturity which is confusing me!! As this can contradict the ban length.

OHHHHHH MY BRAIN!!!
The warn maturity is not contradicting the ban duration. Think of it this way. A member commits a ... "crime" and gets a warning for 3 points. The guy is not a bad guy, he just didn't read the rules correctly. So from there on, he behaves. Should those 3 points be with him for ever? I do not think so. Maybe, after 10 days, or three months, depending on the ... crime, the points get removed. If this is fixed or variable, it's up to you. You can have the same maturity period on all your warning types.

The question is, what you do with a member who keeps commiting offences, until he gets banned. Do you still keep his warning points after he is banned, or do you erase them and let him start from scratch when he is unbanned? The more I think of it, the more I believe that we should clean up his records, to give him a fresh start. The other way around can be confusing.

Can other people who have installed this hack jump in and tell us their opinions?

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