SmackDaddy70 Posted September 18, 2015 Share Posted September 18, 2015 Since the banned group has been done away with -- how can we modify banned member permissions where we may allow them to see one forum section but want to prohibit them from being able to use the "Contact Form" and spam us or access other functions on the site? I can't see where we can modify "banned" member permissions at all........thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnn Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 You can create a "Banned" group, configure it and move those members there. Members -> Groups -> "Create New Group" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmackDaddy70 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 We have quite a few people who are banned (30+ pages) -- not sure how to do that without manually editing each banned member to add them to the group -- definitely not liking this change for banned people......we should have been given the option to leave them in a "banned group". Someone from IPB want to tell me how to do this the most efficient way?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheersnGears Posted September 19, 2015 Share Posted September 19, 2015 Doesn't the banned group still carry over if you upgrade from 3.4.x to 4.X? Mine did the last time I did a test upgrade. All of your members should remain in the groups they are currently in. It's just in new installations that there is no banned group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmackDaddy70 Posted September 19, 2015 Author Share Posted September 19, 2015 They (IPB folks) did my conversion from 3.4.7 to 4.0.13.1 a week and a half ago -- conversion, not new install, and they told me the "banned group" was no longer a thing. They are "flagged" as banned and will still show as the primary group they were last a part of (for us, "Registered Users") -- and I don't like that one bit. >.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmackDaddy70 Posted September 20, 2015 Author Share Posted September 20, 2015 What's the point of "banned" now?!? I cannot modify their permissions and permissions are set by groups.....this is asinine and creating a logistical nightmare where we still have to make our own "banned" group to prevent those people already banned (600+) from being able to access areas of the site they are not blocked from....and have to go one by one to add them to this new group..... *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 11 minutes ago, PCtoolbin said: What's the point of "banned" now?!? I cannot modify their permissions and permissions are set by groups.....this is asinine and creating a logistical nightmare where we still have to make our own "banned" group to prevent those people already banned (600+) from being able to access areas of the site they are not blocked from....and have to go one by one to add them to this new group..... *sigh* So, they're not really banned then? The banned group was "removed" per-se back in 3.3 iirc, at that point banning was moved to a flag on the members table (just like it is in IPS4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmackDaddy70 Posted September 20, 2015 Author Share Posted September 20, 2015 I had a banned group in version 3.4.7 (which we had just two weeks ago) -- and we could prevent them from seeing parts of the site that we still wanted guests to see. NOW.....according to support (I put in a trouble ticket) -- their solution for me was to keep guests from seeing anything I didn't want banned people to see. What is the point of "banned" then now? It's useless and pointless. *smdh* I *want* guests to be able to use our "Contact Us" form -- but not banned people. This is a completely useless and silly change @Invision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machsterdaemon Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 On 19.9.2015,, PCtoolbin said: We have quite a few people who are banned (30+ pages) -- not sure how to do that without manually editing each banned member to add them to the group -- definitely not liking this change for banned people......we should have been given the option to leave them in a "banned group". Someone from IPB want to tell me how to do this the most efficient way?!?! How about using the group filter on the Members search page? You will maybe find the old banned group name there and use the search result to move them to another group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmad E. Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 4 hours ago, PCtoolbin said: I had a banned group in version 3.4.7 (which we had just two weeks ago) -- and we could prevent them from seeing parts of the site that we still wanted guests to see. NOW.....according to support (I put in a trouble ticket) -- their solution for me was to keep guests from seeing anything I didn't want banned people to see. What is the point of "banned" then now? It's useless and pointless. *smdh* I *want* guests to be able to use our "Contact Us" form -- but not banned people. This is a completely useless and silly change @Invision You know banned members could just logout and then use the contact form as guests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmackDaddy70 Posted September 20, 2015 Author Share Posted September 20, 2015 I am considering just making the guests be forced to register to access anything.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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