IP.iBaLLiN Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Instead of having a banned usergroup, perhaps just have a menu in the ACP/MCP to ban a user and enter why they are banned. They will then see the message showing why they are banned when they try to visit the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jυra Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Many large forums I'm sure may have large ban lists. The ban controls should have a note area saying why they're banned. Then that message could show to the banned user. I think in most situations the banned user knows why they're banned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donkerrood Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 [quote name='IP.iBaLLiN' date='22 February 2009 - 03:46 AM' timestamp='1235270765' post='1786239'] Instead of having a banned usergroup, perhaps just have a menu in the ACP/MCP to ban a user and enter why they are banned. They will then see the message showing why they are banned when they try to visit the board. And if no reason is given, show a default 'banned' message... +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike X Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 There is banned group and there is "Suspended". what is the point? One of them need to be removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisecc Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 There is a big difference between 'suspended' and 'banned'. I suspend a user for x days for minor infractions. I ban members which is a full time suspension. Banned members have their groups changed and suspended members just are locked out temporarily with no change to their group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Ban and suspend are the same thing in IPB3 - you can ban a member right from the warn panel, with a reason. To use the other ban controls, though, like changing their group, banning their email address and/or IP, you still have to go via the ACP as before, to maintain security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisecc Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Rikki: I hope you mean the definitions haven't changed in IPB3. I can also read that they 'are the same' as now are equivalent in 3.0. Kindly clarify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 The suspend feature was always essentially 'banning' in 2.x, but there was confusion about what it was, so we've just changed the terms we use. The features themselves work the same, but in the warning panel suspend is now called ban. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisecc Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Good to know. Thank you for answering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct2·com Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 I like the distinction between 'suspend' and 'ban'. Suspend to me is a private/invisible thing [to other members]. The member remains in the same group, but their permissions and post restrictions are temporarily modified. Banning though means placing a member in a separate 'Banned' group. This group has very few permissions to do anything on the board. It's a conscious, manual effort by an Admin to move a member into the 'Banned' group. My 2p worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisecc Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 @rct2dotcom I completely concur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikki Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 Although the terms have changed, you can still do the same thing, just in case there was confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrisecc Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 You have successfully un-confused me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 There are a plethora of ban options in IPB3... From the warn panel you can "ban" indefinitely, or for a specific time period. This does not change their group - it works identical to IPB2. From the ACP you can access the ban panel for a user where you can "ban" the account (this sets a flag on the account, banning them from the site, without changing their group or anything else), and add their data to the ban filters (IP address, username and email address). You can also, of course, still move a user to a banned user group should you wish, however it is not necessary (if for instance you didn't want anyone to know the user was banned). There is a blog entry from middle of last year in our blog on this if you are interested in reading about it more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IP.iBaLLiN Posted October 3, 2009 Author Share Posted October 3, 2009 Sorry for the bump, but I'd like to continue with my suggestion. Add one more field if there currently isn't any kind of like a "note to user." That note will be displayed to the user when he tries to access the board and sees he is banned. Such as: You have been banned for %reason%. You have been banned for %bantime% will be unbanned on: %unbandate%. If you have any questions, please click here to contact us. (The contact us link will open up the admin's email mailto: link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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