PeteC
March 27th, 2006, 08:34 PM
Have you ever had a "vBulletin" forum act strange? Have you ever felt that maybe your ISP or Modem was taking a dump while looking at a message board? Maybe it is just another hack and you made the list.
So, lat night I was surfing a local board and saw a post that I had knowledge about. I thought I would log on in and give the correct information and be helpful to fellow wheelers. Been a while since i have logged into this particular board. Never have performance issues while surfing as a guest.
So, I log in. mmmmmmmm re-direct to a "For Sale" post about a boat. Click on forum, same post. Click on home, "Server Busy error". Go through this a few more times and then thought, hey, I know someone else who had this happen.
So, today, I start snooping and searching and asking questions. Said it before, I may not be an expert, but I know plenty of them. This is what I came up with.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93258
Here is a 3.5 version of the ever popular "miserable users" hack. Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. Based on the original idea & hack for vb2 by Zzed, and the vb3 port by KuraFire.
History :
v2.01 - Released as a product - no more editing of the plugin required, all settings are in the vB options.
v2.02 - Added option for multiple usergroups to be defined as miserable.
v2.03 - Added option for IP addresses to be defined as miserable.
v2.04 - Updated multiple usergroups code.
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.
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).
Forgot to mention that this also increases the post flood limit by five times, so if you normally limit members to one post per 30 seconds then it will be once every 2.5 minutes (assuming they have the patience to get past everything else).[/b]
Seems you don't have to ban anyone, just put them on this list. Make it so hard to navigate through this that a person would give up and go away. After all, you would not want to be known as someone who would ban a known person who many seem to like off of a popular local board, now would you?
Interesting, don't you think? Pass this around, post it on other boards. Worthwhile information for people who think they have software, hardware or communications bugs.
So, lat night I was surfing a local board and saw a post that I had knowledge about. I thought I would log on in and give the correct information and be helpful to fellow wheelers. Been a while since i have logged into this particular board. Never have performance issues while surfing as a guest.
So, I log in. mmmmmmmm re-direct to a "For Sale" post about a boat. Click on forum, same post. Click on home, "Server Busy error". Go through this a few more times and then thought, hey, I know someone else who had this happen.
So, today, I start snooping and searching and asking questions. Said it before, I may not be an expert, but I know plenty of them. This is what I came up with.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93258
Here is a 3.5 version of the ever popular "miserable users" hack. Basically a way to really annoy anyone you don't want visiting your forum. Based on the original idea & hack for vb2 by Zzed, and the vb3 port by KuraFire.
History :
v2.01 - Released as a product - no more editing of the plugin required, all settings are in the vB options.
v2.02 - Added option for multiple usergroups to be defined as miserable.
v2.03 - Added option for IP addresses to be defined as miserable.
v2.04 - Updated multiple usergroups code.
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.
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).
Forgot to mention that this also increases the post flood limit by five times, so if you normally limit members to one post per 30 seconds then it will be once every 2.5 minutes (assuming they have the patience to get past everything else).[/b]
Seems you don't have to ban anyone, just put them on this list. Make it so hard to navigate through this that a person would give up and go away. After all, you would not want to be known as someone who would ban a known person who many seem to like off of a popular local board, now would you?
Interesting, don't you think? Pass this around, post it on other boards. Worthwhile information for people who think they have software, hardware or communications bugs.