Banning accounts.

[Shef]

When you validate accounts through User Email, and it says "Delete account", "Approve account", "Resend Validation Emails", it would be neat to add a "Ban this account", for porn bots or anything.

[Jυra]

Or just not approve the account?

[Shef]

Or just not approve the account?

Its called Feedback for suggesting, not for being a wise guy..

[Jυra]

I didn't intend any harm, but why would someone ban the account instead of not approving it?

[Shef]

I didn't intend any harm, but why would someone ban the account instead of not approving it?

Most of a chance for not registering since the account is banned. If you can add a "IP ban" and the script bans your IP to, that would be sick, and you won't have to see them.

[Jυra]

Wouldn't better spambot protection be better? They wouldn't be able to register in the first place.

[FrostedPopTart]

Some of the "spambots" are human, and I could even join up on some sites just to post porn / advertisements / spam / etc. It's not hard. I'm sure Brandon / Matt / et al. can code in a feature to auto add a user's IP / email / username to the banlist if the admin chooses to do so.

[Jυra]

How would you know not to approve of them or not if they're human? How can you auto-add ban information?

[Rheddy]

There's no reason to have a 'ban account.' Just don't approve the account. Or just go into 'Edit Member' and change their usergroup to 'Banned.' There's no reason to have a 'banned' option. And why are we discussing this? IPB3 already has the function to where you can pull up that user account and just click on a button to ban that member. If you have been testing IPB3 then you would know this. There's no reason for a function like this since it's already covered by either deleting the member or editing that member and changing their usergroup.