Version: 1.00, by Zzed
Developer Last Online: Feb 2012
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 03-07-2003
Last Update: Never
Installs: 151
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This hack is an alternative to banning a user. As the name suggests a user who
gets hit with this hack will become truly miserable while trying to access
your board.
So here is what really happens to a miserable user:
- There is a random 60-120 second delay each time they click on a link.
- 90% of times they have no search engine acccess.
- 75% of the times they get the server too busy error.
If they don't get the server too busy error:
- 50% of the times they may get a blank page
- 30% of the times they may get forwarded to the forum main page
- 20% of the time they may be able to see the page they asked for.
after doing all the math in actuality they have only a 5% chance of seeing the
page they clicked on. What kills them is the time they have to wait before
anything happens.
I actually once tracked a miserable user and watched him suffer for 2 whole
hours before he was able to make a simple post.
This hack is considered one of the most sadistic hacks on my board.
The hack allows you to make your user miserable via the admin CP. It also
allows you to search for all miserable users through the admin CP as well.
Also in showthread.php, it appends a red status that is only visibly to admins
and mods stating that a user is miserable.
Tables affected by this hack: user
Files affected by this hack: global.php, showthread.php, admin/user.php
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Today at 01:33 PM Rynthar said this in Post #122 Hi, I installed the hack and everything, but in my user profiles in Admin CP, there is no usergroup for Miserable users. What do I do?
It is not a usergroup. It is a clickable option in the edit user screen. It is a property of a user that can be turned on of off.
I can not thank you enough for this hack. I have noticed that it does help with the lame users that want to cause problems since a normal ban they clearly know this and use a dupe account.
Today at 03:08 PM wolfman said this in Post #126 I can not thank you enough for this hack. I have noticed that it does help with the lame users that want to cause problems since a normal ban they clearly know this and use a dupe account.
After using for a long while this hack, it's obvious that only people that try to log in with his banned nick will get the too busy, but 99% of them notice that when logged out they can navigate without problems (and registering a new account solves the problem too), so I was wondering which kind of message do you people use so they really think server is bugged out....
I have implemented an unpublished IP trapping mechanism that works like the VBulletin IP ban, except that anyone, registered or guest, coming in on an IP in that list will have a miserable session. This will not work with dial up users because they are coming in on an IP pool and I have in some cases 200+ people sharing the same dialup IP in my IP records.
But this works finr with users who have limited IP's. I have also added the IP addresses of some big name anonymizers to my miserable IP list.
Pure evil, I love it, there are some times when we just want to get under someones skin cuz they post up hella stupid commentary. hahaha this will teach em
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04-08-2003, 07:37 PM
