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Tim Dorr

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  1. I wouldn't say *banned*, just politely asked to upgrade their hosting account :)
  2. You can add this functionality to the report center, which puts it behind at least one level of protection. And, more importantly, it puts it one less step away from the user. The report center should really be more than just a glorified secondary PM inbox. It's got a lot of potential.
  3. See, I didn't even get that far. :) I didn't know that's what that icon did. From a UI perspective, the previous drop down icon and hover state were more clear about what that does. To me, the new icon looks like it says "this link opens in a new window". Changing that is related to the problem, but there are other things to fix beyond that. Edit: Actually, I don't see that icon in the member info card popup? :huh:
  4. I just don't get it. The flow of user interaction is completely bass ackwards. You have to go around to several different places to deal with it all. I think it's best demonstrated by example: Let's say a spammer comes along, registers a new account, posts a spam topic, etc. Here's how I have to deal with it under IPB 2.3: - Get a report PM - Open the topic - Copy the username to my clipboard - Log into the ACP - Find the user - Delete any topics/posts they've made - Delete the user (I choose to delete, rather than ban, but it's the same net effect) - Delete the report PM And now in IPB 3.0, the flow hasn't improved at all: - Get a report email - Check the report center and open the report - Open the topic - Copy the username to my clipboard - Log into the ACP - Find the user - Mark then as spam - Delete any topics/posts they've made - Delete any PMs they've sent - Delete the user (I choose to delete, rather than ban, but it's the same net effect) - Handle the report That's a lot of steps for something that happens every day or so. Here's what I'd like to see happen: - Make the report center more feature-filled. I should be able to both get to the topic in question and also act upon it. - I should be able to mark a user as spam, delete their topics and PMs, and delete/ban them in one fell swoop. One button to handle everything in one place. Simple as pie! - Put those buttons, links, actions, etc in the topic itself, in the report center, and in the ACP. Let me take care of this stuff easily. At it's core, I don't want to both have to log into another area of the site and perform similar actions in separate locations in the software. I had thought the report center was going to handle that, but it's really just a specific PM-handing system to replace what we had before. Boring! Let it actually do something. On smaller boards or ones that only get occasional spam, it's overkill to have a system just for managing reports. But if it actually adds functionality, the benefits come back to those kinds of customers. Thoughts? Am I missing something incredibly obvious?
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