mute a member

[leotan]

I was wondering, is it possible to 'mute' a member instead of banning it.
As in, making all the postings of that particular member only visible to himself and the moderators. So it would be like he is talking to himself and no one will be replying him.

Because banning will make him register another account. While 'mute' him, make him think that he is still active and just post around. In times, he will get bored when no one is replying and disappear by himself.

[Josh]

No, that exact feature is not available in IPB, the moderation queue is the closest feature to what you are talking about.

[A Walk in Faith]

Over on vB we had a feature called Tacky goes to Coventry but I didn't find it working all that well.

There was a Mod over at vB called the miserable user mod that worked a lot better.. The simple theory of the mod would be to make it so aggravating to the member that they would stop coming to your site.

Jamie

[Luke]

I don't recall if this was changed or not, but the moderation tool make it where the moderator can see the posts, but the user who posted them could not. Not sure if this is still the case, but if it is I would like to see it changed (member who posted it can see their own post/topic), with the option for the member to have no notification that their post is actually hidden.This could be used, in conjunction with an already existing forum option, for a "help desk" type setup in a forum.

[leotan]

I don't recall if this was changed or not, but the moderation tool make it where the moderator can see the posts, but the user who posted them could not. Not sure if this is still the case, but if it is I would like to see it changed (member who posted it can see their own post/topic), with the option for the member to have no notification that their post is actually hidden.This could be used, in conjunction with an already existing forum option, for a "help desk" type setup in a forum.

that is what I am looking for too. :)

[.Ian]

I am pretty sure you can set up a forum so that the posting member can see their own posts/threads, but nobody else's.


Would be nice though that when a member is on moderation or a forum is on moderation (like the pre-sales here) that they also see their post straight away along with the mods/admins - so they see it in the pinkish colour when unapproved - this way the poster could add or alter his post prior to it being approved.

Of course if it were to be soft or hard deleted then it would vanish as it does now.

There is nothing worse that making a post and it just vanishing - even if it is subject to moderation, as often you think 'drat meant to say x y or z as well.'

[Andy Millne]

Would be nice though that when a member is on moderation or a forum is on moderation (like the pre-sales here) that they also see their post straight away along with the mods/admins - so they see it in the pinkish colour when unapproved - this way the poster could add or alter his post prior to it being approved.

+1 would probably cut down on the duplicate posts from people that don't realise it's waiting approval too.

[TestingSomething]

On a site I go to if you put someone on ignore, NEITHER you nor they can see each other's posts. I know that's unrelated to this, but somewhat related. IPB should do something like that also because why have ignored people even see posts of those who have them on ignore?

[IamJen]

Could someone tell me how to access the moderation queue? We have two admins and ten moderators all trying to find it on our board, newly installed with IPB.

[bfarber]

Could someone tell me how to access the moderation queue? We have two admins and ten moderators all trying to find it on our board, newly installed with IPB.

Do you need technical support?

You can obtain support via the client area, or you can try to obtain peer-to-peer support at IPS Resources.

[Olivier Turbis]

I am pretty sure you can set up a forum so that the posting member can see their own posts/threads, but nobody else's.

Would be nice though that when a member is on moderation or a forum is on moderation (like the pre-sales here) that they also see their post straight away along with the mods/admins - so they see it in the pinkish colour when unapproved - this way the poster could add or alter his post prior to it being approved.

Of course if it were to be soft or hard deleted then it would vanish as it does now.

There is nothing worse that making a post and it just vanishing - even if it is subject to moderation, as often you think 'drat meant to say x y or z as well.'

Totally second that.

[IamJen]

Do you need technical support?

You can obtain support via [url="https://www.invisionpower.com/customer/"]the client area[/url], or you can try to obtain peer-to-peer support at [url="http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showforum=308"]IPS Resources.[/url]

Thanks. I found this thread through the search function. It was the most recent one with talk of "moderation queue", so I gave it a go.

I'm afraid I'm not able to start a thread in either of those areas it seems. I'm unsure as to what's required for permission to post on the peer-to-peer board.

[.Peter]

Thanks. I found this thread through the search function. It was the most recent one with talk of "moderation queue", so I gave it a go.

I'm afraid I'm not able to start a thread in either of those areas it seems. I'm unsure as to what's required for permission to post on the peer-to-peer board.

An active IPS license is required to post in the peer-to-peer boards.

[Fishfish0001]

How is ti a new license without an Active license... Sounds fishy.

Back on topic though. I like this idea. Would defiantly shut the spammers up.

[spicy brains]

I am pretty sure you can set up a forum so that the posting member can see their own posts/threads, but nobody else's.

Would be nice though that when a member is on moderation or a forum is on moderation (like the pre-sales here) that they also see their post straight away along with the mods/admins - so they see it in the pinkish colour when unapproved - this way the poster could add or alter his post prior to it being approved.

Of course if it were to be soft or hard deleted then it would vanish as it does now.

There is nothing worse that making a post and it just vanishing - even if it is subject to moderation, as often you think 'drat meant to say x y or z as well.'

There used to be a mod in 2.x that did it -- it was pretty simple, but I haven't figured out how to port it to 3.1 (I only recently started working with the 3.x code base and am not as familiar with it as I was with 2.x). I've included the mod, and if you figure out how to make it work in 3.1, shoot me a note. This is an old saved mod, don't know who wrote it.

In /sources/action_public/topics.php (around line 2238), change:

if ($this->topic['approved'] != 1)

to:

if ($this->topic['approved'] != 1 && $this->topic['starter_id'] != $this->ipsclass->member['id'])[/code]

If you don't want members to see their posts shaded: also in /sources/action_public/topics.php, (around line 786) change:

[code]if ( $row['queued'] or ($this->topic['topic_firstpost'] == $row['pid'] and $this->topic['approved'] != 1) )[/code]

to:

[code] if ( ($row['queued'] or ($this->topic['topic_firstpost'] == $row['pid'] and $this->topic['approved'] != 1)) and ($this->topic['starter_id'] != $this->ipsclass->member['id'] or $row['author_id'] != $this->ipsclass->member['id'] ) )[/code]

In /sources/action_public/forums.php (around line 620), change:

[code]$approved = 'and approved=1';[/code]

to:

[code]$approved = "and (approved=1 or starter_id='{$this->ipsclass->member['id']}')";[/code]

I n /sources/lib/func_topic_linear.php (around line 188), change:

[code]$queued_query_bit = ' and queued=0';[/code]

to:

[code]$queued_query_bit = " and (queued=0 or author_id='{$this->ipsclass->member['id']}' )";[/code]

In /sources/lib/func_topic_threaded.php (around line 167), change:

[code]'where' => 'topic_id='.$this->topic['tid']. ' and queued != 1',[/code]

to:

[code]'where' => "topic_id=".$this->topic['tid']. " and (queued != 1 or author_id='{$this->ipsclass->member['id']}')",[/code]

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