Lock Status updates when Suspended

[Myr]

Here is an important, imperative update:
Lock a person's status updates while they are suspended. I've suspended a member and he is using his status updates to post comments.

[Myr]

Sorry, I have him on moderator preview. Still think it should be locked though. or have an explicit option to lock it.

[Wolfie]

It's a feature added in 3.0.2, but I think it's based on group not individuals.

[Michael]

If you don't want him updating his status, then you should be suspending his account. All you're doing right now is moderating his posts, that does nothing for things like status updates, signatures, avatars, personal conversations, emails, blogs, galleries, etc., etc. Why should just status updates be included as something they are restricted from updating when they are on post moderation?

[bfarber]

[quote name='Μichael' date='04 August 2009 - 12:40 PM' timestamp='1249404041' post='1838071']
If you don't want him updating his status, then you should be suspending his account. All you're doing right now is moderating his posts, that does nothing for things like status updates, signatures, avatars, personal conversations, emails, blogs, galleries, etc., etc. Why should just status updates be included as something they are restricted from updating when they are on post moderation?


I see the OP's point, but I'd tend to agree with Michael here. You opted to moderator preview his posts, and that's what IPB did. If getting them to stop doing anything is important, you should probably suspend the account for a couple days.

[Myr]

True enough. He's suspended now. But, moderator preview of posts is kind of useless if you can post straight to status and have it show up on the front of the forums.

[Wolf]

I think the hook should not update on the index at least, if a user is suspended.

[bfarber]

That would take the feature a lot farther than our current intentions. Right now it's a single field in the DB (along with a timestamp tracking when you last updated it). You'd have to have a kind of history to show the last status update that they submitted before being suspended, or you'd have to complicate the SQL query to check if the user is suspended (and the way status data is stored, that isn't a "simple" query). Ultimately, you do want your board index page to be fast, so we don't really want to add a lot of heavy queries where they're not necessary.


Of course, saying all that, I intend to look into adding the ability to edit the member's status and about me text from the edit member page on the front end soon. Most people causing problems (or spam accounts) tend to update Website, Status, About Me, and/or Signature. You can only fix website and signature from the front end currently, so giving you the ability to edit the other 2 should help make things simpler.

[DarkRider]

Just had the same thing happen on my site as well. The kid was put on post moderation, but got angry and decided to take it out on us by spamming the Recent Status Update Hook and trying to stir up the other users; also ended in suspension. It would be nice if there was just a reset feature or something on the hook itself that admins could click to clear it when needed. Being able to reset it from teh profile would be a good step. Glad this is being looked into though. :thumbsup:

[Myr]

[quote name='bfarber' date='04 August 2009 - 11:08 PM' timestamp='1249441727' post='1838355']
Of course, saying all that, I intend to look into adding the ability to edit the member's status and about me text from the edit member page on the front end soon. Most people causing problems (or spam accounts) tend to update Website, Status, About Me, and/or Signature. You can only fix website and signature from the front end currently, so giving you the ability to edit the other 2 should help make things simpler.


That would help a lot, thanks!
Myr

[BradSmith]

Just ran into an idiot who decided to spam bad words. I looked in vain for a moderation tool and found none. I see now in this topic why. Hmm... looks like one idiot is going to ruin the feature for all.