Add-On Releases - Duckways: Multiple Account Detector

Multiple Account Detector



What is this mod all about?
We all know that one of the problems in managing a board is users creating multiple accounts. Banned users that return using a VPN or whatever. This plugin will detect multiple accounts used by the same user and create a report thread in a forum of your choice.

Example of the thread posted:


Plugin settings:


You can modify basically everything, but we'll continue to expand this plugin with a lot more detection options to track users!


Free version includes:
- Detecting multiple users based on a cookie
- Up to a history of 3 users (reports the last three users in a report thread)
- You can fully manage the location, thread starter, title & content of report threads

PRO version includes:
- Detecting multiple users based on a cookie
- Detecting multiple users based on the IP address (including support for load balanced setups and Cloudflare proxy)
- Unlimited history of user accounts, the full history of logins will be reported in the report thread
- You can fully manage the location, thread starter, title & content of report threads
- Exclude users from being reported
- Exclude user groups from being reported
- Admin panel module added, with options and an overview page of IP addresses having multiple users.
- A smile from the team, you bought us a round of coffee! ;-)


The PRO version cost 9.99$
You can buy it HERE. After payment you'll automatically get a license and download link for the plugin in your email. This is a lifetime license with a year of support on the plugin itself.
For installation service and/or plugin development you can email us on quack@duckways.com





About Duckways
We're a company with a team of developers who have been working a lot on a vBulletin 4 system for two of our customers. The largest one with over 200,000 users and 4 million posts.
This one migrated to vBulletin 5 recently and we've faced quite some issues in vBulletin 5 which we'll fix by writing custom modifications. Some of those, which are worth sharing, will be added here on vBulletin.org. If you're missing a feature or add-on, please feel free to contact us.

How to install:

- Download the zip file below

- Upload the content of the zip to: core/packages (this will result in a the path /core/packages/duckwaysmultipleaccount

- Go to settings and save the Duckways: Multiple Account Detector settings (Even when you don't wish to change anything! This is a vBulletin bug where you have to at least save the settings once!)


Version history

• 1.0.0 - Initial release

Support
Please use this thread to ask questions or to report bugs.

[megabink]

This one handy addon...i had this on my vB 4 version a few years back which saved me a lot of time.
Thanks for bringing it back to vB 5.

[Jorandh]

Originally Posted by megabink

This one handy addon...i had this on my vB 4 version a few years back which saved me a lot of time.
Thanks for bringing it back to vB 5.

Thank you for the support!
We also had it on all of our vBulletin 4 installs, living without one was a hell. A whole lot of scammers made their return to the sales section on our board without anyone knowing... It's a great tool to detect the return of banned members!

[Jorandh]

Pro version finished and buy link added to the thread!

[megabink]

Originally Posted by Jorandh

Thank you for the support!
We also had it on all of our vBulletin 4 installs, living without one was a hell. A whole lot of scammers made their return to the sales section on our board without anyone knowing... It's a great tool to detect the return of banned members!

I hear ya...i will report back once i installed the addon hopefully today.

[Jorandh]

Version 1.0.2 - BETA release
A beta version of 1.0.2 has been released for PRO users, you can download it in our download section behind your customer login (details should be in your email after purchase).

This version includes some new features, like:
- Exclude users from being reported
- Exclude user groups from being reported
- Admin panel module added, with options and an overview page of IP addresses having multiple users.

[Fleiding]

Unlimited history of user accounts, the full history of logins will be reported in the report thread

How do I achieve this in the Pro Version? I can't seem to find a button for it.

[Jorandh]

Originally Posted by Fleiding

How do I achieve this in the Pro Version? I can't seem to find a button for it.

It's automatically available As soon as someone has been logging in over 2-3-4 accounts whey will all get reported in a thread. Oh, and thanks for your support by buying the PRO version! We'll continue to develop some very nice vBulletin plugins, so keep an eye on this section.

[plongeur.com]

I would rather have the duplicate accounts all reported in the same thread (new post in the thread) than creating a new thread each time, which would probably end-up spamming my private section.
Is there a,y way to make it work this way ?

[Jorandh]

Originally Posted by plongeur.com

I would rather have the duplicate accounts all reported in the same thread (new post in the thread) than creating a new thread each time, which would probably end-up spamming my private section.
Is there a,y way to make it work this way ?

We will need to rewrite that part or add it as an option. In the meantime: Create a sub-channel within your private channel with a name like "Multiple accounts", we have it set up like that