Asterisk by Username

[Wayne Luke]

When using vBulletin 2.0, why is there an asterisk by some user's names in the Who's Online list?

[Wayne Luke]

These are people who chose to be invisible. However as an Admin, you can still see them. The asterisk is to mark these people to you.

[Gaz.t]

Can you disable them doing this.

[Ian]

Originally posted by Gaz.t
Can you disable them doing this.
Yes you can, just do the following:

In the template "registeradult"
Change:<tr>
<td bgcolor="#F1F1F1"><normalfont><b>Invisible Mode?</b></normalfont><br>
<smallfont>Selecting yes allows you to surf the forums without appearing in the 'Logged In Users' list.</smallfont></td>
<td bgcolor="#F1F1F1"><normalfont>
<input type="radio" name="invisible" value="yes"> yes
<input type="radio" name="invisible" value="no" checked> no
</normalfont></td>
</tr> to <input type="hidden" name="invisible" value="no">Doing that will remove the option when soemone registers.

To change the option for current members run the following MySQL query in phpMyAdmin:UPDATE post SET invisible=0
I did not test this but in theory, it should work. As always, backup your databse before you make changes like this.

[CeleronXT]

You'd need to edit that in the options too, because they could just register and then change the options.