[Alpha] Troll MOD (Alpha 2)

[igorw]

Wow, thanks for the huge ammounts of comments, and special thanks to you who tested it

nice idea evil....

I thinks it's better if you change the name of your mod become Evil Mod

Whahaha

Would be nice to get a redirection to somewhere else as well.

Any suggestions? I think redirection to google or something like that would be too suspicious. This MOD should make the user think he is having bad luck. Which... in a way he is

Also It would be nice to specify in ACP the % that you want for each setting.

Yeah, that's a good idea, and i'm planning to implement something like this. Still thinking of how to do it. I was thinking of having a pie chart with flash and you could drag the borders. Any ideas, suggestions or offers are appreciated

Another nice thing but not really needed is: specific settings for users.

It's an okay idea but not really worth it imo. Maybe somebody can create an add-on for it.

Cool idea, but that is just plain evil.....I like it

Why do you think i chose this username?

also good for admins to play tricks on your moderators

I see some great site-wide april fools potential...

And i thought i was evil...

If I don't remember wrong, someone mentioned before. The troll mod for phpbb2 was leaving a troll track cookie in troll members' pc. So, if the troll enters board with another account from the same pc, can be treated like a troll again. I wonder if it wil also be utilised by this mod..

Thanks for the suggestion, it's been implemented .

[igorw]

I decided to make 2 posts .

Thanks for all of you who tested it. There were some small, silly an annoying bugs in the code. First of all, the FIND action in the MOD file was bad (multiple instances), secondly the add belonging to that find was messed up in the MODX file, due to a mistake in my mod to modx convertor. Also, the code to run the SQL was commented out...

Anyways, i have fixed up a few things, here's a changelog:

• r20
  # fixed/improved the find in the mod
  # don't make founders trolls
  # troll cookie support
  # pseudo modular actions system (to be improved)
  # installer: process sql (it was commented out, duh)
  # installer: add function to remove itself if /install/ is writable
  # fix a bug with the mod version for updating

• r21
  add caching for troll actions (works like cache::obtain_hooks())

I'd be glad if you guys could do some more testing. I've also done some more myself and it should be working better now. Things needing testing: troll cookies, self-delete function of installer, make sure caching for actions works.

If you have an account on assembla.com (you can register one for free), you can suscribe to updates for my mods (i think you'll get updates for all then...). That can be found here.

Thanks for all your support and comments so far! I'm glad this MOD is so popular

[Matze89]

i have all the time a error-message with the Troll - Nickname:

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting '{' in /homepages/38/includes/troll/base.php on line 24

can i help me?

[jmjm003]

Couldn't wait to test it any longer.

I seem to have the issues that most were having on the first go around.
Had to run the table manually because the install did not create it. Added module in ACP. After that, set my normal user test account as a troll. DB table list the ID of this user. When browsing the forums I do not see any changes in the way it behaves.

[idiotnesia]

I've just got the files from the repository. I will test it soon...

About redirection:
Just redirect to your forum (http://www.phpbbmodders.net)

offtopic:
wew, i found something interesting in your repo (annual_stars and forum_prune_move)
my phpBB will be full wth your mods

[RedTrinity]

Ok have tested the updated version on our board, this error is appearing everywhere for the guinea pig 'troll':

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Fatal error: Non-abstract method troll_action::action() must contain body in /home/****/public_html/forum/includes/troll/base.php on line 24

[igorw]

Matze89 and RedTrinity, thanks for testing. It should now be working. I fixed that little mistake. It didn't seem to happen for me... Just update to r22

jmjm00, can you explain the problem in detail?

About redirection:
Just redirect to your forum (http://www.phpbbmodders.net)

Hahaha

offtopic:
wew, i found something interesting in your repo (annual_stars and forum_prune_move)
my phpBB will be full wth your mods

Thanks for the support so far guys - you're great!

[RedTrinity]

Hi Evil!

Good news, we just tested the latest version and it works My guinea pig member (moderator lol) experienced blank pages, being logged out and very slow loading times. She also logged out intentionally and the forum continued to run slow, took her ages to log back in.

Yay!!! Congrats on a job well done

Now, I have a couple of suggestions if that is ok? Firstly, are any of these able to be implemented from V2 as well?

1. Login (only works 25% of the time)
2. Posting (no post is ever saved, but 25% of the time it will APPEAR to work)
3. Private messaging (no PM is ever sent, again 25% of the time it will look like it has worked)
4. Email (no email is ever sent, same as PM and posting)

Particularly that of the preventing posts/PMs going through - I feel this is an important aspect as if the troll is experiencing problems, then its not going to be long until they are wandering over to the feedback section to report them. This doesn't look good for other members who may view the topics at another time and assume that the board plays up regularly, but also might cause some suspicion for the troll if its confirmed by other members that they are the only one experiencing issues.

Also of course most trolls only post up worthless material anyway

My other suggestion - not really an important aspect but more for amusement's sake - V2 also had funny 'joke' messages as well such as telling the troll that they couldn't login due to the forum being full, please try again later etc. Might be worth considering

Sorry for overloading you with suggestions btw, I realise that chances are these have already been considered in future - just thought I would go over some of the ideas used in the last one which I believe would be great ported to the PHPBB3 version!!

Thanks again for such a great MOD and for finally converting it, you have no idea how much it was missed on our forum LOL

[RedTrinity]

Oh I forgot to mention, its not really a bug but at the moment usernames entered into the ACP to set trolls are case sensitive - the names have to match exactly in order for them to work

[jalaln]

I don't like this type of MODs because I feel "pity" for them which "hurts me" even though they deserve it. Banning is better IMHO.

[RedTrinity]

Banning is better IMHO.

I believe banning can be more offending for somebody who would know they have been deliberately turned away - especially since if they are a troublemaker (ie. a troll which this MOD is intended for) they will just come straight back with a new account to cause further problems. Trolls always find a way around any kind of ban.

This MOD encourages a troublemaker to leave of their own accord and never come back, as they believe the forum is genuinely malfunctioning. No point re-registering or trying to cause problems at a broken forum, right?

So each to their own But I am very happy this MOD is back and only use it in extreme situations - therefore I don't have any need to pity the victim because they have truly earnt the consequences. Besides, I would prefer them suffer than both the staff and the folks of our community ,who are there for genuine reasons and don't appreciate somebody there whose purpose is to intentionally cause conflict/problems.

[blablaman]

first sorry for my enlish. I'am not very good in writing enlish.

I have a idea for this great mod.
Is it possible to go after 5 (shorter or longer) days to a page to explain to the user why this al happens.

[igorw]

Good news, we just tested the latest version and it works My guinea pig member (moderator lol) experienced blank pages, being logged out and very slow loading times. She also logged out intentionally and the forum continued to run slow, took her ages to log back in.

Yay!!! Congrats on a job well done

Awesome! Thanks for testing!

Now, I have a couple of suggestions if that is ok? Firstly, are any of these able to be implemented from V2 as well?

1. Login (only works 25% of the time)
2. Posting (no post is ever saved, but 25% of the time it will APPEAR to work)
3. Private messaging (no PM is ever sent, again 25% of the time it will look like it has worked)
4. Email (no email is ever sent, same as PM and posting)

I might add some of these as "extra options".

Particularly that of the preventing posts/PMs going through - I feel this is an important aspect as if the troll is experiencing problems, then its not going to be long until they are wandering over to the feedback section to report them. This doesn't look good for other members who may view the topics at another time and assume that the board plays up regularly, but also might cause some suspicion for the troll if its confirmed by other members that they are the only one experiencing issues.

This is a good point. I will see if i can find a good way to add this I had something like this planned originally but then removed that because i didn't want to add too much to it. But I'll have another look at it.

My other suggestion - not really an important aspect but more for amusement's sake - V2 also had funny 'joke' messages as well such as telling the troll that they couldn't login due to the forum being full, please try again later etc. Might be worth considering

It's sure funny, but imo that would be something for april 1st, not the troll mod. But that's just me

Sorry for overloading you with suggestions btw, I realise that chances are these have already been considered in future - just thought I would go over some of the ideas used in the last one which I believe would be great ported to the PHPBB3 version!!

No, your suggestions are great, seriousley! Keep them coming

Oh I forgot to mention, its not really a bug but at the moment usernames entered into the ACP to set trolls are case sensitive - the names have to match exactly in order for them to work

I'll have a look at this.

I don't like this type of MODs because I feel "pity" for them which "hurts me" even though they deserve it. Banning is better IMHO.

This MOD is not for just annoying users you don't like. At least that's not my understanding of it. There are users that are just plain annoying. You ban them and they keep coming back. That's a real pain, the Troll MOD should be the last try to get rid of a user. But how they use it is up to the admins. It's not my fault if admins abuse their powers. I personally have never had to do something like this, and it takes a lot until i ban a user when i run a forum.

I have a idea for this great mod.
Is it possible to go after 5 (shorter or longer) days to a page to explain to the user why this al happens.

This would be possible, but i don't think i will add it. The Troll MOD should (imo) not be used as a replacement for banning. If you want to get rid of a user, ban him, give him a ban reason. If everything fails, make him a troll. But thanks for your ideas anyway. As always, i'm open to addons and will - if they are good - include them.

Thanks for the testing and input guys, keep it coming!

[jmjm003]

jmjm00, can you explain the problem in detail?

Let me reinstall it. Maybe I missed a file or something when downloading all of them. Not use to having to get files that way.

It appears to work for most of the members that have installed it now. Most likely I did something wrong.
I'll get back to you.

[jmjm003]

I was at fault. As it is things seem to be workin fine. Well, unless your the victim of this mod. What a pain in the ***!

I do get one eror with debug on.

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[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/functions_troll.php on line 84: Undefined variable: config

Thank You for bringing this mod back to life with 3.0!