Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Miserable Users

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

The ever popular "Miserable Users" modification.

Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. Credit to Zzed for the original idea.

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 they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).
4. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).

If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.

Note: All the above are set in vBulletin Options > Miserable Users.

To Install ;

Download the xml file to your pc and import it into vbulletin as a product.
Ceate your 'Miserable Users' usergroup and set the value of this group, and your preferred other settings, in the modifications settings (vBulletin Options > Miserable Users).


To make a member suffer just edit their profile - add them to the Miserable Users group (it will work as either the primary group or as a secondary group). There is also the option to set ip addresses.


History:

v4.0.1 : 24-Dec-2009 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 20-Jan-2010 : Not released.
v4.0.3 : 26-Jan-2010 : Various updates.
v4.0.4 : 16-Feb-2010 : Fix server busy, phrase blank page message.
v4.0.5 : 18-Feb-2010 : Installer update.
v4.0.6 : 07-Mar-2010 : Changed the way the delay works.
v4.0.7 : 29-May-2010 : Fix error in upgrade section of install code.
v4.0.8 : 06-Nov-2010 : Install code updated.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[sulasno]

thanks for the prompt response
will install the update :-)

edit

How do I update the Mod?

edit

uninstall and import new xml
and ACP->Options

[solidlink]

Paul, is there any way we can check if a forums is using this?

[Paul M]

Nope.

[FrankAZ]

Excellent mod! I am running a local forum (where people physically get together) and this will be an excellent addition to deal with a few people.

[Chickenpotpie]

tagged for now. It may be something I have to use at a later date.

-CP

[stained]

Thanks for this mod. One of my users is being subjected to miserable mode at the moment for habitually treating my forum as a one-way street where he sucks the information in but contributes nothing of any worth to others. It's great to have the facility to 'punish' people like him without having to ban them. The only shame is that I'll never see his face when he finally realises that he's the only one having problems accessing my forum

[BlueCheri]

I do not know why it is not working for me, it was working with older version.

Expecting some feed back and help on that.

[badawidollah]

thanks
help me so much

[Kat00]

Fixed one of my PITA.
This is perfect for the ****** I want to stir up. Thank you.

[Drache]

Hi Paul M.
First I have to say thank you for all your mods. They are very useful.

I have a question about this mod.

Will this use lots of server resource?

During peak hour my site is very slow so I want to use this script to redirect the unregistered users to a for thread and tell them to register or come back later when the low is down.

Would this plugin help to solve my site's speed during peak hour?