An alternative to banning: Miserable Users

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

[Steve W.]

Thanks for the changes Zzed, but after I did them, it all worked fiine until I hit yes to "miserable user?" and it gave me this:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET birthday='1988-05-04',options='15',usergroupid='2',username='Joe Obsessed',email='yasmin4joe@hotmail.com',styleid=' 0',parentemail='',coppauser=0,homepage='http://teenworld.upperboard.com',icq='',aim='',yahoo='',s ignature='Sometimes, I find myself Struggling to breathe
Without you, You are my air...I love you, Joe. You mean the world to me - you complete me. You\'re the only thing I need in my life at the moment. I think about you first thing in the morning and last thing at night - and I wanna say thank you for making me so happy...You are truely amazing and I don\'t think you realise just how wicked you are. You\'ve had the wicked impact on me that I\'ve never had before, and I love you. For that, and many other things, I wanna say thank you. Love you my babe x x x',adminemail=0,showemail=1,invisible=0,usertitle=' ...So Sexy... ',customtitle=2,joindate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-05-22 02:45:53'),cookieuser=1,nosessionha
sh=1,daysprune='-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-11 12:12:42'),lastactivity=
activity,lastpost=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-12 16:07:43'),posts='54',profileview='6',timezoneof
fset='0',emailnotification=0,receivepm='
m',emailonpm='0',ipaddress='62.254.128.4',pmpopup= IF(pmpopup=2 AND 1=1,pmpopup,'1'), miserable=1 WHERE userid=8
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'sh=1,daysprune='-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-11 12:12:

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 13th of June 2003 03:58:50 PM
Script: http://rockpop.goldenpie.com/admin/user.php
Referer: http://rockpop.goldenpie.com/admin/u...=edit&userid=8

Any ideas?

[Zzed]

Your query statement has the word sessionhash broken up in 2 lines where sessionha is on one line and sh is on the next.

[Steve W.]

I changed it, but unfortuantly I got a:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.3.0:

Invalid SQL: UPDATE user SET birthday='1988-05-04',options='15',usergroupid='2',username='Joe Obsessed',email='yasmin4joe@hotmail.com',styleid=' 0',parentemail='',coppauser=0,homepage='http://teenworld.upperboard.com',icq='',aim='',yahoo='',s ignature='Sometimes, I find myself Struggling to breathe
Without you, You are my air...I love you, Joe. You mean the world to me - you complete me. You\'re the only thing I need in my life at the moment. I think about you first thing in the morning and last thing at night - and I wanna say thank you for making me so happy...You are truely amazing and I don\'t think you realise just how wicked you are. You\'ve had the wicked impact on me that I\'ve never had before, and I love you. For that, and many other things, I wanna say thank you. Love you my babe x x x',adminemail=0,showemail=1,invisible=0,usertitle=' ...So Sexy... ',customtitle=2,joindate=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-05-22 02:45:53'),cookieuser=1,nosessionhash=1,daysprune= '-1',lastvisit=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-11 12:12:42'),lastactivity=
activity,lastpost=UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2003-06-12 16:07:43'),posts='54',profileview='6',timezoneof
fset='0',emailnotification=0,receivepm='
m',emailonpm='0',ipaddress='62.254.128.4',pmpopup= IF(pmpopup=2 AND 1=1,pmpopup,'1'), miserable=1 WHERE userid=8
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'fset='0',emailnotification=0,receivepm='
m',emailonpm='0',ipad

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Friday 13th of June 2003 05:46:45 PM
Script: http://rockpop.goldenpie.com/admin/user.php
Referer: http://rockpop.goldenpie.com/admin/u...=edit&userid=8

[Zzed]

Today at 02:46 PM Steve W. said this in Post #153
I changed it, but unfortuantly I got a:

You have a PM from me.

[Zzed]

Today at 02:46 PM Steve W. said this in Post #153
I changed it, but unfortuantly I got a:

This time it is the word timezoneoffset. It has been broken up into timezoneof and fset.

[PhantomX]

brilliance! gracias amigo

[Zzed]

Thank you kind sir.

[wolfman]

Zzed,

I just have to asy thanks again for this hack. This is simply the most usefull hack I have on my board. Just to give a little background on how I am using it currently.

A few months back we had a group that split off and before doiing so had created multiple logins, to make it easier to get back in and cause trouble. Well we got those taken care of before this hack by banning them. Well a ban just added fuel to their fire. They would then use that as a badge or something with the other forum. Well since this hack has been added, they try to say they are banned, but we can honesly say they are not banned and that people can check in the members list to see for themselves.

I also know that they are not going to be offically supporting vb3 hacks on here at this time, which I can understand since it is in beta still. I just hope this is one hack that can make it to vb3

[Zzed]

wolfman,

That is a great story. And thank you very much for your kind words.

P.S. I am always the first victim of all my hacks. I know exactly how it feels to be struck by this hack.

[wolfman]

Well when I installed this my mods were like "Are you sure it works?" I setup a test account so they could try for themselves, though I did warn them that they might pull some of their hair out in the proccess.

The annoyance level of this hack I would have to put almost on the same level as those cardboard inserts in magazines. My first thought was that I wanted to choke you when I tested this hack for myself this one really does give the power back to the admin and mods of a forum as with a ban its to clear what has been done, this they do not know :dead: