Is there a way to block the viewing of banned spammer member profiles? We've found a common spamming technique is to register an account and fill out the about me field. Realizing we could go edit the profile, making them not visible would be a nice option.

Is there a way to achieve this out of the box?

17 minutes ago, Paul E. said:

Is there a way to achieve this out of the box?

Made a quick plugin: Block Banned Profiles.xml

The only issue here is that the system treats regular banned and spammer banned in the say way (at least I couldn't identify a difference quickly) so it will block all banned profiles.

Adriano,

Thanks for putting that together. I'm wondering what the best way to handle approaching these sorts of users is long term. 

19 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

Made a quick plugin: Block Banned Profiles.xml

The only issue here is that the system treats regular banned and spammer banned in the say way (at least I couldn't identify a difference quickly) so it will block all banned profiles.

Thanks for that!

Does this send a 403 header or 404?

403.

@Adriano Faria

I too thank you for this plugin... 🙂 
Is there a way to exclude the admin group from this block so they can still see the profile? TIA!