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.)

 

 

great to get good advice from this support forum, spot on as usual

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.

-boRg- wrote: You could always ban the users IP address

 

yes but what after hes ip changed?

with the cookie... you can as admin do the "ban member" order

then when the member log again to the banned account he directed to the suspend page

and thats it! ive seen it in action in the invision board and its great way to ban

without any manual stuff

People learn the rules/guidelines early on as other long term members are very loyal and keep an eye out for idiots who might register and try to spoil the atmosphere

 

I guess it depends on who your site is aimed at, people can always re-register but it makes it harder if you've banned that ip address and you regularly monitor the daily posts

Im running 7.9 at the moment and had to create a new user group as ticking the inactive box on the members profile failed to close the account

 

still, id never change this forum despite geeks asking me why i run web wiz opposed to others, its fan-bl00dy-tastic

thats why when they will try to access to ANY page they will be directed to the suspended page

 

i think that will be a great way to ban

 

Is there any way you can post the code to do the admin banning cookie?

 

Thanks,

Adam

 

maybe one of the mod builders can?

and i think most of forums not using email activation

 

Thanks to you, I learned here some techniquest how to suspend annoying users.

 

I tried this, but the system then offers them a resend of the activation email. Is that correct, or and anomally I'm seeing?  If they can just get an activation email again, then the system itself seems to have a way for them to get around being suspended.