Deleting Members

-boRg- wrote: You can also make the users account unactive by editing their profile, this means that the user can no-longer post or do anything on the forum aprt from view posts. Much simpler than creating a group for this as it prevents many more things in the forum then the new group way.

Wouldn't they be able to click on the activation link in the original e-mail (if they saved it) to reactivate?  That's the only reason why I am weary to use this method.

I think that a user who hasn't verified his e-mail and a banned person should be treated differently by the system.  We have a lot of new members who never used a forum before and they get confused sometimes.  It would be useful to have a different error message for people who need to verify their e-mail address vs. someone who is banned vs. someone who does not have access rights to an area.  Right now there is only a general error which doesn't tell the user what is really wrong.  This is especially the case for users who have not verified their e-mail.

Ideally, their should be an option to ban someone which is different than whether they are active or not (i.e. verified their e-mail).

That's good to know.  That makes it easy to deactivate them.

Since it showed inactive for both users who haven't verified their e-mail and for people the admin made inactive, I thought they were handled the same way.