Suspending Members!

I usually go onto their settings and edit their forum settings and click the radio button that says 'not active'

 

Is this the right procedure for temporarily banning someone without deleting the account ?

 

Users i have tried to suspend in this way have been able to log in which makes me feel like a chocolate fireguard!

 

any advice will be fantastic, thanks

 

Let me explain; my application is for a church that has several types of members. Religious forums are difficult by nature and then you throw in a few extremists and it gets, well, colorful. I have 10 moderators who help manage this unruly crowd but because it's a church supported website we can't just ban every person because they can't hold their temper. So we have 'levels' of banning.

 

First, a 2 week time out where they can read and not post

Second, a 30 day time out where they can read and not post

Third, a year time out where they are not supposed to have access.

Forth, permanent. This is reserved for most extreme cases.

 

Using the group feature of WWF, this may be much easier to manage. That's a good thing.

 

I'm still waiting for the new version before I mod the basic forum too much. I'm hoping that groups are managed differently in that I can assign multiple groups to individual users. (Such as participating moderators etc.)

 

when i ban member he steel can logout from hes account and register again...

 

any chance to get a mod that when i ban member the forum puts a cookie on hes computer

 

and when he will try to access the forum again he will be directed to suspended page

That said, anyone worth their salt will know how to remove the cookie to gain access. Use the tools already part of the program, keep an eagle eye out for the person and just keep kicking them off. They will grow tired of it and leave soon enough.

 

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I've already been looking at ways of banning with cookies, and I want a little bump script that will log the banned user off so the new status "banned" is immediate. I'm looking at the active users list and PM type feature to accomplish this. BUT... too busy to work on it right now.