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An alternative to banning: Miserable Users · **Released**: 03-07-2003

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

MaDCaT75 · #**172** 08-01-2003, 04:59 AM

Will this hack be re-written for vB3?

TonTon · #**173** 08-01-2003, 12:40 PM

SQL-query :

ALTER TABLE user ADD miserable smallint( 5 ) unsignedDEFAULT0 NOT NULL

MySQL said:

You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'DEFAULT0 NOT NULL ' at line 1

Zzed · #**174** 08-01-2003, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Today at 06:40 AM TonTon said this in Post #172
SQL-query :

ALTER TABLE user ADD miserable smallint( 5 ) unsignedDEFAULT0 NOT NULL

MySQL said:

You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'DEFAULT0 NOT NULL ' at line 1

Change this: ALTER TABLE user ADD miserable smallint( 5 ) unsignedDEFAULT0 NOT NULL

To this: ALTER TABLE user ADD miserable smallint( 5 ) unsigned DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL

I added a space before and after DEFAULT.

BladeZz · #**175** 08-01-2003, 04:44 PM

This hack works fabulous!Thank you very much!

Airs · #**176** 08-01-2003, 11:26 PM

Hey i installed this hack and surprisingly enough no errors whatsoever O_O but it dosent work? i click the yes and save changes and then when i look at it again its in no..it never changes to yes =/ any help? btw im running vb 2.3.0

Zzed · #**177** 08-02-2003, 01:59 AM

Quote:

Today at 05:26 PM Airs said this in Post #175
Hey i installed this hack and surprisingly enough no errors whatsoever O_O but it dosent work? i click the yes and save changes and then when i look at it again its in no..it never changes to yes =/ any help? btw im running vb 2.3.0

Most porbably you forgot to change the "UPDATE user" query statement in admin/user.php.

-Sidekick- · #**178** 08-02-2003, 05:10 AM

Hey Zzed I posted about a problem modifying the functions.php file for the Starved users hack and you had me email you my functions.php file.

You said you were gonna modify it for me and send it back. I never received it back. Did you need me to send it to you again?

Airs · #**179** 08-02-2003, 03:44 PM

Hey Zzed thnx for the quick reply ^^. Im afraid i did all the edit's correctly..atleast that i can see to user.php and still no go =/.

MaDCaT75 · #**180** 08-09-2003, 06:35 AM

Why the hell cant I get this thing to work?

Shiekron · #**181** 08-09-2003, 02:30 PM

I get a bunch of garbled mess after I upload global.php

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
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