Stopping a Who's Online Troll

[betterthanyours]

What's his IP address? Do you have root access to the webserver? Why don't you CDIR ban him?

[Wayne Luke]

After several months of banning and blocking his handles and IP addresses I now ban, block and then delete them. I just need un-moderated users to stop appearing in Who's Online. Please help!

We had made this change in the initial releases of vBulletin 4.X and people complained because it wasn't accurate so the change was reverted. To remove usergroups from the list requires an addon. You can search vBulletin.org to see if such an Addon Exists.

[ncaross]

Don't delete, just ban. If you delete, he can use the same mail-address again.

His email addresses are along the lines of [email protected]

Every new title is new.

I just need unmoderated users to stop appearing in Who's Online.

It can't be this hard

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What's his IP address? Do you have root access to the webserver? Why don't you CDIR ban him?

He uses new IP addresses all the time.

[Wayne Luke]

I just need unmoderated users to stop appearing in Who's Online.

Like I said in the post above which you seem to have ignored. This requires modifying the code and you need to ask over at www.vbulletin.org. There might even be a pre-packaged addon that does this.

[ncaross]

Like I said in the post above which you seem to have ignored. This requires modifying the code and you need to ask over at www.vbulletin.org. There might even be a pre-packaged addon that does this.

Not ignored. Have spent the time searching for such a mod. Doesn't appear to exist.

To add some recent context, here's today's handle:

"*** are C-unts 2 Zarkov"

[Hartmut]

Did you already start a request at www.vbulletin.org?

[ncaross]

Did you already start a request at www.vbulletin.org?

No. Should I have? I still need this fixing.

[Wayne Luke]

You have two options...

1) Enter an improvement request in JIRA and hope it gets picked up for a version after 4.2.1

2) Enter a request over a vBulletin.org for an addon to do this.

What you want to do isn't possible without editing code and is therefore not supported. It is however a quick code change so someone may just post that at vBulletin.org.