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As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.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.

[fayax]

lol pretty good mod. But why do we really need this.

But definitely funny as hell!

[Snug]

say you have a member that you hate and you dont wanna ban them because itll look bad on your part, i could find some use to this

any ways of using an ip address so it does it to non users too. i could really use this :P

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by fayax

lol pretty good mod. But why do we really need this.

This has been around for 5+ years, and requested on each vb version upgrade.

Originally Posted by Snug

any ways of using an ip address so it does it to non users too. i could really use this :P

This is built into it already, but wasnt mentioned in the main post so Ive added it.

[Gnoll]

Really good , i'll use it in future

Originally Posted by fayax

lol pretty good mod. But why do we really need this.

But definitely funny as hell!

why you need , you add delay on Guests & members , if your forum is big enough you add Premium membership with no delay , or add only delay to Guests then say " Register and surf faster"

[radmoose]

I use parts of it for persistent spammers or bots that try to spider my site without following the ROBOTS.TXT and META data.

Thanks for updating it to 4.0.x!

[Toxic2]

Tks Paul, This is a handy add on, is it possible in the future to add Miserable AND clean-up? (i.e. all the spammer posts) as a extra bonus to the Mod?

Tks again.

[CThiessen]

Hi,
thanks for the Update.
This is on of the Add-ons on my List: "Must have before upgrade"

Mary X-Mas
Christian

[Bounce]

Originally Posted by CThiessen

This is on of the Add-ons on my List: "Must have before upgrade"

ditto, :up: althou don't use this one

[Delilahs]

What phrases we do edit for unregistered users to log in which we can then add 'to surf faster, register now'