Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Miserable Users.

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The ever popular "miserable users" hack for vb 3.7. Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. This version is based on the vb 3.6 version. 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 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).

Upgrade from 3.6
If you upgraded your forum with the 3.6 version installed then it will continue to work, no need to upgrade - otherwise install this in the normal manner.


History:

v3.7.001 - Initial vB 3.7 version.
v3.7.002 : Installation Code Updated.

[Lapsetur]

Can you also add miserable user ID ?

[Mdx76]

very nice add-on, i'm tryng to figure out if it's possibile to add cookies support, to annoy users also if they log out.

[AuroraStorm]

Originally Posted by Paul M

This cannot cause database errors, it doesnt even access the database.

For that matter it cannot cause big load issues either, its little more than 30 lines of basic php - if that cause you problems then you have a major server issue.

That might be but I had the same problem...it went away when I uninstalled it.

*uninstalled*

[dennisuello]

Is there a way to randomly log user out? I tried setting random redirect link to

forum/login.php?do=logout

but instead of logging out, user gets an error: An error occurred when trying to log out.

I think it's because "logouthash" parameter is missing from my link, but how do I get the correct value?

[Paul M]

Sorry, I have no idea.

[TMH63]

What if I created a new usergroup that has all the same permissions as they had before, but navigation and the timeouts are just so difficult that all that pushes them away from the website?

Has that worked for anyone? Would that work?

[Ironduke]

After I installed this mod, my moderators lost the ability to edit other people's posts on the forum. I disabled it, and instantly moderators were able to edit again. I've checked and double-checked the permissions. Just to be sure I enabled it, then disabled it again, same effect.

[Paul M]

I dont see how this could possible affect such an ability, unless you have not set the MU group correctly in its options, even then I fail to see how it could actually do that.

[Ironduke]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I dont see how this could possible affect such an ability, unless you have not set the MU group correctly in its options, even then I fail to see how it could actually do that.

The way I have things set up is that global moderators have the ability to moderate all forums. I also have "Areas of Intensified Focus" where certain moderators are assigned to forums under Forum Manager > Forums > Add Moderator while retaining the ability to globally moderate.

With the product enabled, my global moderators are losing the ability to edit posts in the forum they're "assigned" to.

[Dan Clark]

Hi. We have MU installed. It's VERY effective for several bad trolls. :up::up:

However, lately we've had a rash of porn spammers whose apparent purpose is to get them noticed by Googlebots. There's an discussion amongst our mods about the best way to stop them. I vote for MU and let them thrash. Others say deleting the accounts is much better because their accounts never exist. What do you think?

Thanks,

Dan.