Robert Angle

I understand that. But in the core software, Moderators can have access to IP Tools, but the IP Tools in the AdminCP or ModCP does not allow the moderator to ban an IP. Your application now gives them the ability to ban IP's which is a power I don't want my moderators to have. I don't want to turn off their ability to use IP Tools, because it is useful to them. I want to save the ability to actually ban IP's for me and my fellow administrators only.

(In fact, your application is a good teaching tool as to why it's usually not worth banning IP's, as many users have multiple IP's and some users even share an IP)

I allow my Moderators to use IP Tools, but I do NOT allow them to ban anything.

This application allows my moderators to ban ip addresses. There should be a setting to disallow this. As it is, I am going to have to edit the templates so that the ban link doesn't appear to moderators, but to admins only.

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When I switched to IPB, my converter labeled everyone "Recent New User". I just left it as is and it promotes people upon their next posting.

I suppose if I wanted to mass move some people, I would use PHPmyAdmin in CPanel, look for the members table, and run a search query for all users in group ID=3 with post count > 30. I'd have to peek in on PHPmyAdmin again to see if I could select the whole search results batch and change the group ID at once or if I have to do it one member at a time.

I'm not good with creating little scripts with IPB yet.

Then rename "Members" and apply whatever restrictions you want to it, and create another group for others (and adjust promotion rules accordingly)? Just an idea.

I'm pretty sure mine was like this out if the box, but when I get to a real computer I'll check to see if there was an admin setting for this behavior.

I noticed that this thread is from 2010. All these things seem to be default functionality now in 3.4.4

The "Validating" group becomes the "Recently Joined" group upon approval.