Alter Ego Detector 1.7.8

[majesty95]

I have a question, since adding the alter ego add on, I no longer see my report of members who have not completed registration. Is there a way that I can see them both in my admin alerts on my forum?

 

[Xon]

I have a question, since adding the alter ego add on, I no longer see my report of members who have not completed registration. Is there a way that I can see them both in my admin alerts on my forum?

There is a permission "View Alter-ego Reports". I prefer explicit permissions to control access to reports.

Since installing the latest update a couple of days ago I appear to be getting one of these for every new user registration (user info obfuscated):

ErrorException: Fatal Error: Call to undefined method Tac_StopCountrySpam_Model_Spam::getCookieValue() - library/LiamW/AlterEgoDetector/XenForo/ControllerPublic/Register.php:12
Generated By: XXXXXXXX, Today at 19:26
Stack Trace
#0 [internal function]: XenForo_Application::handleFatalError()
#1 {main}
Request State
array(3) {
["url"] => string(42) "http://www.cyclechat.net/register/register"
["_GET"] => array(0) {
}
["_POST"] => array(9) {
["username"] => string(0) ""
["b239a0035813b1267f22f668512049a4"] => string(6) "XXXXXXXX"
["877571c87736e9469f277f4f8d82a0dc"] => string(26) "XXXXXXXX"
["8a4940b34db4d7d0dbf50e21820939e1"] => string(13) "XXXXXXXX"
["captcha_question_answer"] => string(5) "three"
["captcha_question_hash"] => string(40) "abdf36325d1b1a25043c307b4fd5c362d7716fd2"
["agree"] => string(1) "1"
["_xfToken"] => string(8) "********"
["reg_key"] => string(32) "183ffb8409677d2311060583dcde10f3"
}
}

Any idea what's wrong and whether it can be sorted quickly (I've disabled it for now)?

Thanks,
Shaun

I've sent a PM with a tweaked build.

 

[CTXMedia]

I've sent a PM with a tweaked build.

Thanks for the quick response @Xon - I'll install it this evening and let you know how it goes.

 

[majesty95]

There is a permission "View Alter-ego Reports". I prefer explicit permissions to control access to reports.

I do not see a group permission for Alter-Ego Reports. I see the alert for them in the top left and I can click on it and see the report. I just no longer see the numbers for users awaiting confirmation. Also, it is not showing in my ACP either. It is like, since installing Alter-Ego Reports, the users awaiting email confirmation has completely stopped working...

 

[Xon]

I do not see a group permission for Alter-Ego Reports. I see the alert for them in the top left and I can click on it and see the report. I just no longer see the numbers for users awaiting confirmation. Also, it is not showing in my ACP either. It is like, since installing Alter-Ego Reports, the users awaiting email confirmation has completely stopped working...

There is a "View Alert Ego Report" permission under the General Moderator Permissions.

This addon doesn't change the 'users awaiting confirmation' queue functionality, it only pushes uses into that queue.

There are some additional registration blocking options. Please ensure that you have configured the registration blocking mode to push detected alter-egos into the queue.

 

[Xon]

Xon updated Alter Ego Detector with a new update entry:

Maintenance update

• Fix addon compatibility with Tenants Anti-Spam Collection. Thanks to @Clickfinity for helping troubleshoot.
• Ensure the "View Alter Ego Report" permission is assigned to the default moderator and administrator groups on new installs.
• By default, moderate alter-ego registrations.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Moshe1010]

Thanks for this add-on. Is it possible to exclude specific users from being detected?
In addition, it looks like if I log-in to a random user by the "log as user" add-on, it detects it as a duplicate connection between users although an admin was logging in to those users. It creates basically a massive spam and false alerts.

 

[Mouth]

Thanks for this add-on. Is it possible to exclude specific users from being detected?

Create a user group called 'Bypass Ego Check' (or similar) and set the user group permission to bypass ego check. Put users in this usergroup.

 

[Xon]

Thanks for this add-on. Is it possible to exclude specific users from being detected?

Yes, there is the by-pass alter-ego detection permission.

In addition, it looks like if I log-in to a random user by the "log as user" add-on, it detects it as a duplicate connection between users although an admin was logging in to those users. It creates basically a massive spam and false alerts.

Can you link the exact addon you are referring to? There are two "Logon as User" addons.

I can likely code up support so it stops creating those false positives.

 

[Moshe1010]

Yes, there is the by-pass alter-ego detection permission.

As far as I can tell it's per a group not user id?

Can you link the exact addon you are referring to? There are two "Logon as User" addons.

this one:
Login As User by Waindigo

 

[Moshe1010]

Create a user group called 'Bypass Ego Check' (or similar) and set the user group permission to bypass ego check. Put users in this usergroup.

Wouldn't a better way would be to add a user id exclusion? This was an option in all the multiple account detection I've used so far..

 

[Xon]

Wouldn't a better way would be to add a user id exclusion? This was an option in all the multiple account detection I've used so far..

You can apply any user group permission to a particular user, but it is more scalable to apply it to an entire group and then assign the user to that group.

 

[jeffwidman]

Feature request:
Add a tab on user profile page in both the front-end and within the ACP called "Alter-Egos" that lists the usernames that are alter egos of each account.

This needs to be connected to the 'view alter egos' permission so the tab is only visible to users who are allowed to see it.

One of my forums allows alter egos, and when we need to discipline a user, we want to discipline both them and their alter-egos. Currently, we have to search through reports or forum threads of alter ego reports, both of which are tedious when we just want to know about a specific user.

 

[Xon]

@jeffwidman that feature is definitely on my to-do list.

 

[Commander]

I have problem with installing this addon, when i upload content from upload folder and try to install addon from Admin CP im getting this error:

Error

• aed_user_id_not_found
• Please enter a valid value for this option.

 

[Xon]

@Commander Is this a new install or an upgrade?

 

[Commander]

New install.

 

[Xon]

New install.

Thanks, I'll look into that.

 

[Gossamer]

@Commander Is this a new install or an upgrade?

I have this problem too. Also a new install.

 

[Xon]

I have this problem too. Also a new install.

What version of XenForo, and what addons do you have? Feel free to PM me those details.