Miserable User

[RickJ]

Here is a wonderful mod that another forum has.  After trying a variety of other limiting mods, we love this one the most.  We get 1600 posts per day and could not live with out it.


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.

All the above options are set in the Administration Options.

Can some guru make something like this for us pretty please? 

[Angelotus]

Why not just banning anoying users?

[RickJ]

Because they just re-register as another username.  When users recognize that they've been limited in any way, they quickly re-register.

Users who seem to experience site problems just go away

[Angelotus]

banning is also possible by IP. I agree that it indeed is a humoristic mod!

[karlbenson]

The only problem with these sorts of mods is that users may assume that smf is buggy when it is not.

[RickJ]

Do we care what trolls think of smf? 

[TheWrath!]

Do we care what trolls think of smf? 

Yes we do. Even though they might be annoying to your fourm they might want to try out SMF. If they believe SMF is buggy which it is not and one reason I chose SMF then the usefulness of all of the teams hard work goes down the drain.

[karlbenson]

Trust and reputation is easy to lose, impossible to win back.

If you were using PHPBB, then it wouldn't matter (because they have zero for me for both).

But for SMF, yes it does matter.

[TheWrath!]

Trust and reputation is easy to lose, impossible to win back.

If you were using PHPBB, then it wouldn't matter (because they have zero for me for both).

But for SMF, yes it does matter.

i would not say impossible but i would say really hard to earn back. been there done it before.

[trnt94]

Isn't this built into to phpbb by default? I think this would be nice, but I don't like the idea of going to the wrong page because that would make smf look bad, I think it would be better to have a blank page because that would make the host look bad.

[Jenni]

Just placing a cookie on the banned user's machine which displays something like 'you have been banned from using this forum' whenever access it attempted (even by proxy) might be helpful.

[Eliana Tamerin]

Difficult for public workstations, such as those at a school, work, library, internet cafe, etc. Then you're blocking out any user who accesses that computer.