Misery

Misery is a module designed to make life difficult for certain users.

It can be used:

• As an alternative to banning or deleting users from a community.
• As a means by which to punish members of your website.
• To delight in the suffering of others.

Currently you can force users (via permissions/roles, editing their user account, or using IP blacklists to endure the following misery:

• Delay: Create a random-length delay, giving the appearance of a slow connection. (by default this happens 40% of the time)
• White screen: Present the user with a white-screen. (by default this happens 10% of the time)
• Wrong page: Redirect to a random URL in a predefined list. (by default this happens 0% of the time)
• Random node: Redirect to a random node accessible by the user. (by default this happens 10% of the time)
• 403 Access Denied: Present the user with an "Access Denied" error. (by default this happens 10% of the time)
• 404 Not Found: Present the user with a "Not Found" error. (by default this happens 10% of the time)
• Forms don't submit: Redirect back to the form during validation to prevent submission. (by default this happens 60% of the time) Note: Occasionally certain forms validate based on which button was pressed, this won't work in those cases.
• Crash IE6: If the user is using Internet Explorer 6, this will crash their browser. (by default this happens 0% of the time)
• Spam: Replace node content with a set word. (by default this happens 10% of the time)
• Logout: Log the user out. (by default this happens 10% of the time)

There are hooks for developers to unleash and contrive more misery.

This project was inspired by the vBulletin hack; "Miserable Users".

If you want to give your trolls the silent treatment try the Cave module.

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