Ok, I'm sure this has been covered, but I don't know the answer...

If a member is deleted, are all their posts also deleted?

No, the posts are displayed as being made by a guest.

Blair

This might sound strange, but I couldn't find how to delete a member. I log-on as the Administrator, but cannot find this anywhere.

Can you help?

thx

Open their profile, click the 'Edit Profile' button down the bottom, then, when you are editing their profile, click the 'Delete Member' box at the bottom of the page.

Blair

If the reason why you are deleting that person is you are banning them, you might want to do this:

Another way to solve the problem is to create a banned or inactive or unregistered group with no permissions.  I prefer calling it unregistered.  Then just assign that user to that group.  This would prevent someone from re-registering under the banned name and would preserve the username and keep it associated with previous posts made by that account.  I would rather do it that way since I don't want all his posts to be converted to "Guest."

wistex wrote: If the reason why you are deleting that person is you are banning them, you might want to do this: Another way to solve the problem is to create a banned or inactive or unregistered group with no permissions.  I prefer calling it unregistered.  Then just assign that user to that group.  This would prevent someone from re-registering under the banned name and would preserve the username and keep it associated with previous posts made by that account.  I would rather do it that way since I don't want all his posts to be converted to "Guest."

thanks for the tip. that's neat.

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.

-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).

The activation email can not be used to reactivate an account.

A user that has had his/her account deactivated is seen differently by teh system than someone who simply hasn't activated their account. This is done by placing the code 'NoAct' onto the users usercode which is stored both in the database and a cookie.

Only the forum admin can reactivate the users account through the persons profile.

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.