Spectator only

[BankFodder]

There is an excellent plug-in by @DawPi which allows site team to ban particular individuals from a topic.
It's very helpful when you get troublemakers around – and unfortunately we do because a lot of the things we deal with are very controversial.

We have some very important discussions going – generally speaking about people's legal rights and also about the legal actions that we are helping them take – and all too often, these discussions tend to get hijacked or diverted by people coming in with all sorts of unhelpful comments.

Of course we could simply ban those people from viewing the discussion using the plug-in by @DawPi but this seems a little Draconian because there are often very useful things for people to learn from the topic.

What would be really nice would be to have a spectator only function so that where there is a danger of a discussion being derailed, one could either choose to include certain people as being able to contribute to the discussion – or exclude particular individuals from taking part in a discussion – but all without preventing them having access to the topic at all.

 

[Daniel F]

You could enable post approval in such topics.

[BankFodder]

Sorry could you explain that please

[Adriano Faria]

Daniel’s suggestion will moderate all new posts in that topic, including the ones from members who aren’t messing up with the topic. 

With the following resource, you will moderate new posts/topics only of the troubled users, leaving alone the ones who’s not messing up.

 

Edited February 26, 2022 by Adriano Faria

[BankFodder]

Yes that's what I thought about the suggestion by Daniel. I couldn't really understand how it would facilitate individual targeting.

Thanks for the heads up on your resource. It looks as if it will do what I have suggested – although it would be nice if it could simply be triggered from the front end

[Adriano Faria]

3 minutes ago, BankFodder said:

although it would be nice if it could simply be triggered from the front end

You can. This the user profile:

[marklcfc]

The feature I've asked for the most over the years is the ability to ban specific users from posting in a topic, just not going to happen else it would have.

Edited February 26, 2022 by marklcfc

[Adriano Faria]

7 minutes ago, marklcfc said:

The feature I've asked for the most over the years is the ability to ban specific users from posting in a topic, just not going to happen else it would have.

Easy enough to add in the resource linked above. Currently it moderates. 

I would add a new option in the form asking if you want to moderate or disallow posting:

 

But that would be a forum thing; you want it per topic. 

Dawpi’s resource does it, if I’m not mistaken.

Edited February 26, 2022 by Adriano Faria

[marklcfc]

13 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

But that would be a forum thing; you want it per topic. 

Dawpi’s resource does it, if I’m not mistaken.

Sometimes you get troublesome posters in certain topics and the only way to stop it is through restricting by forum (via a different member group). I'd rather just be able to stop them posting in one topic, but ok to post everywhere else.

[Adriano Faria]

Just checked and Dawpi’s resource ban or disallow post in a topic.

[BankFodder]

But the resource by @DawPi doesn't allow you to prevent somebody from posting but at the same time allow them to view the topic content. If the person is banned using the resource then they can't post but they can't view either.

[kmk]

Not better if a Moderator tool just convert that topic as Private, only users selected or invited can see and post in it? 

In case of that topic author is regular member, there let request by author to convert their topic as Private, after the Private request is approved, let author invite specific members to continue enrich that topic content. 

[kmk]

This ability can be offered as premium tool for VIP members if the admin want to play with it. 

[BankFodder]

That there could be hundreds of people who want to view it and many of them may well have something useful to say.
I'm suggesting something which is quick to use – from the front and and can be used on the fly

[Morrigan]

@BankFodder There is a default moderator tool to require post approval in a topic:

This will take your controversial topic into approval mode which means members posts will not appear until a staff member has personally approved them.