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I am seeing a lot of these in my Apache logs, does anyone know what they are and should I block them?

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15 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

Will take a look. 

Cheers! 👍

Bug Report:

When copying a Message, the original contents are not copied over to the newly created duplicate message.

24 minutes ago, jesuralem said:

I have two major use cases :

- Let everyone know that action has been taken following inappropriate behavior, and so prevent others from having the same behaviour

- Inform other members that they should not expect any answer from the banned user either on public discussions, in PMs or anywhere else (classifieds).

I tend to agree with @Chippy365 here, we have a reasonable request, and you come telling us we shouldn't have it, maybe we should just consider that we may manage our communities differently than you. I don't drink coke, i don't go tell people who do that it is a useless and disgusting beverage...

Again, as I said to Chippy, I'm sorry if my post came across the wrong way as it wasn't intended the way you may think or came across.

As someone who has managed communities for over 20 years in one way or another, I have learned through experience as to why we do not show members as banned or discuss moderation with my members in an open forum. I'm not telling you how to run your community, god forbid, all I am saying I do not understand the need to parade one of your members as banned for any reason. If that works for you, then by all means do what works for you and your community. 😀

57 minutes ago, Chippy365 said:

Moderators don't have the ability to move members between groups. Also not all offences require a permanent ban. Some are suspended for a specific time period like a week etc. We don't move those people because trying to track each member's time period would be much more time consuming.

With respect, I don't tell you how to moderate your community and you shouldn't tell others how to moderate theirs unless they ask for advice. What works for one community doesn't necessarily work for another. And to be frank, nobody asked for lectures on how to moderate their community so the comments don't really add anything to the discussion other than telling us you moderate your community differently. Great, your moderation style works for your community. It doesn't work for ours. It's almost as though communities are diverse and have different wants and needs 😲

Our community has no need or want for a PM system, can we get that removed and add it as a marketplace plugin instead? I'm being facetious here, but we see this a lot when people post feature requests - there's a subset of people who essentially wade in and say "I have no need for this in my community so maybe it should be a marketplace add-on". It's not productive and puts people off asking for new features.

 

Twitter is a prime example of a major service that labels a user banned when they have been banned or suspended. They even notify you if a user you reported has had action taken against their account. While this would be nice to have - all I am requesting is an extra little icon to be added in the same place where there is an icon for moderators, to denote that the person is currently banned/suspended. For some communities they might not necessarily want the icon to say those words and that's fine, allow it to be translated to inactive or something. If you don't want the icon at all, then allow that to be an option too. There's plenty of features that we deactivate in the forum software because our community doesn't want it.

A number of different use cases have been provided for why such a feature would be useful to some communities. It may not be useful to other communities and that's fine. Nobody is forcing you to use it. The good thing about IPB is you can turn off and on features you don't want. As for moderation styles - I didn't realise that using IPB software also required us to subscribe to a certain ideology of community moderation. Maybe users could let other users moderate our communities as we see fit without providing a sermon and then we could have a more productive discussion?

 

You mistook my post and my question.

It wasn't meant to be a lecture (Sorry if it came across that way) as I was trying to understand why yourself and others want to let others know that your members have been banned  and I wanted an insight into why your community needs it, but mines doesn't?

21 minutes ago, Paul E. said:

I don't think you understood. If you label someone as "banned," yes that would have a negative connotation. Maybe, in a community where people like to be admonished, that's a not a bad thing. Who are we to judge? However, what I said was (emphasis added):

If you translate "banned" so that everywhere it appears on IPS, the word is replaced with "Member Requested Account Deactivation," there is no negative connotation. It's all in how the community is run. Adding a feature to the software that is toggled on or off (or giving individuals the ability to do something easily via CSS modifications), doesn't mean your community needs to do what other people need to do. Try to imagine how others may use something, even if it isn't how you might.

This is a feature request, not a religious debate. Some folks find it valuable. I think it would be kind practice here to only comment on someone's feature request when:

1. You like the idea, and see how it could work for others/yourself
2. You're concerned that the implementation of the idea might change how you use the platform, and want to be sure that your use cases are considered

Speculating about how you would never personally benefit from something as a measure of the validity of the customer feedback left here by saying "I don't get this and would never use this" is akin to saying "I don't have the desire to exercise the taking on of the perspective of others to see things from their worldview." I think we can be better than that.

My point is, why do you even need to label a member banned (regardless off how you mean it or want it representent). Just Ban them and be done with it. As I said, why does anyone apart from your moderators and staff need to know that John Doe is banned (in any shape or form)?

Please tell me why you feel the need to share this information to your members and what benefit it is for your community?

My members have been complaining a lot about the default font sizes on Mobile and Tablet Devices (Using the default theme settings).

Google search console has been complaining about 'Text too small to read', 'Click-able elements too close together' or 'Content wider than screen'. I use basically the default theme with slight modification and colours.

I have also found that changing the 'font_medium' text works on desktops but has no effect on mobile devices.

17 minutes ago, Paul E. said:

Don't forget limitations imposed from moderation via accumulation of warning points. There's validity in use cases where people who cannot participate in a discussion are represented as such. I think the issue may be that we naturally want to assume "banned" means "bad." "Banned" is simply a name assigned to it for its most common use case, however there are reasons in which members are set into a "cannot post on the site right now" for an infinite number of reasons. In our community, we use these features, yet rename all of these terms through translation to reflect how we use them. It's a good sign that the software offers that degree of flexibility.

Some communities are managed where moderators are only able to apply warnings, and cannot change usergroups. There's no permission presently to restrict the usergroups one can move a member into. Remember principle of least privilege.

Things that work for Communities A, B, and C, may not work in D, E, or F. Reputation/karma points are a good example. Even though there are communities that would never show things like the leaderboard, or "who won the day" because they simply don't fit the culture, doesn't invalidate the value in having it as an option for the platform.

Disagree,

When you label someone as banned you are in a sense classing this as a bad person and parading this information to all your other members. Other members don't need to know who is banned or not, as someone else pointed out, it is none of their damn business.

It is like sites who create a whole topic to let others know that 'John Doe' is banned for X and X amount of time. If I see these types of posts, I will not join that community, period!

The only people that need to know who is banned, is your admin and your moderators. I have found over the years having Banned all over your site just creates more issues, like people asking why so and so was banned and how unfair it was of you to ban them.

Move on from 20 years ago and make moderation invisible to your users.

For example. When I moderate someone, the moderation is between the site staff and the person moderated. We never ever discuss moderation with anyone other than the person moderated and we learnt this the hard way. All you are doing is setting your self up for a world of hurt if you start explaining or posting your moderation reasons to all your members.

And for those saying that your members are too old to change, tosh! They might not like it at first, but they will get used to the changes. I generally find my members are more accepting if I explain to them why I am making the changes first. FYI, most of my members are in their 50's, football fans, and arrogant assholes, and if they can get used to change then anyone can!

Bug:

[22-Oct-2020 18:33:05 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Unparenthesized `a ? b : c ? d : e` is deprecated. Use either `(a ? b : c) ? d : e` or `a ? b : (c ? d : e)` in /public_html/applications/calendar/widgets/upcomingEvents.php on line 153

16 hours ago, TDBF said:

Cheers,

Fixed and an update waiting for approval. 🙂

 

My submission has been rejected for something that has been part of the widget since day one. That's me done with development on this platform, I'm sorry, but I won't be reuploading any more version of this or my other plugins.

5 hours ago, svit said:

Hello, there seems to be a bug in the latest version of the plugin: when activating the 'Column Border Separation' the separator is projected to forum posts as well. Resulting in line as shown below:

 

IPS heldpesk identified the issue here:

Cheers,

Fixed and an update waiting for approval. 🙂

Version 1.04 is waiting for approval.

1 hour ago, svit said:

Below is the response I received from the helpdesk, could you please raise the issue with the dev team if possible, so that we gain access to the plugin please?

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Okay, will do :)

1 hour ago, svit said:

Hi it is a great news seeing the plugin been upgraded inlc, all the new features, thank you for that! In our ACP Marketplace however there is no option to upgrade from previous version. We have the previous version installed, configured and paired with the marketplace, yet marketplace doesn't recognize the new version as a new version and it states, that the plugin is already installed. Any advice here?

I would raise a ticket with support as this is out of my range of control. 🙂

17 hours ago, newbie LAC said:

Hello,

Could you give me a link on the forum page?

Do you see the clicks records in the Stats?

https://www.thedarkblues.co.uk/

Yes, and the clicks are no where near the amount that Google Adsense is reporting.

21 minutes ago, bfarber said:

Are you saying they aren't created? Because I'm unclear otherwise if this wasn't a typo?

Sorry, they are not created.

When in Developer mode, if I upload a plug-in, the developer (Dev directory) files are created (Manual upload), however the css files are created in the css folder. However, the CSS styles can be found in the theme ACP.

Also, I have found that sometimes the version files in setup don't always get created either on install..

I seem to have a slight problem, the click stats per day does not match up with what Google Adsense has.

Does this mean I either have your application set up wrong:

Is this correct?

There are a few other issues which I have opened a support ticket.

Found out the issue, seems there was a missing hook. to the one plugin I had installed....

Error thrown with message "Class 'IPS\Theme\Dev\hook22' not found"

Stacktrace:
#7 Error in E:\wamp64\www\DevWorking4.5\system\Theme\Dev\Theme.php:151
#6 IPS\Theme\Dev\_Theme:getTemplate in C:\Windows\Temp\the3A66.tmp:59
#5 IPS\Theme\theme_core_admin_global_globalTemplate in E:\wamp64\www\DevWorking4.5\system\Theme\Dev\Template.php:171
#4 IPS\Theme\Dev\_Template:__call in E:\wamp64\www\DevWorking4.5\system\Dispatcher\Dispatcher.php:172
#3 IPS\_Dispatcher:finish in E:\wamp64\www\DevWorking4.5\system\Dispatcher\Standard.php:113
#2 IPS\Dispatcher\_Standard:finish in E:\wamp64\www\DevWorking4.5\init.php:887
#1 IPS\Dispatcher\nexus_hook_DispatcherAdmin:finish in E:\wamp64\www\DevWorking4.5\system\Dispatcher\Dispatcher.php:154
#0 IPS\_Dispatcher:run in E:\wamp64\www\DevWorking4.5\admin\index.php:14

Whoops\Exception\ErrorException thrown with message "Cannot declare class IPS\Theme\Dev\nexus_hook_clientAreaLink, because the name is already in use"

Stacktrace:
#2 Whoops\Exception\ErrorException in C:\Windows\Temp\app7ED8.tmp:12
#1 Whoops\Run:handleError in E:\wamp64\www\DevWorking4.5\dev\Whoops\Run.php:433
#0 Whoops\Run:handleShutdown in [internal]:0

<?php
namespace IPS\Theme\Dev;

//<?php

/* To prevent PHP errors (extending class does not exist) revealing path */
if ( !\defined( '\IPS\SUITE_UNIQUE_KEY' ) )
{
    exit;
}

class nexus_hook_clientAreaLink extends Template
{

/* !Hook Data - DO NOT REMOVE */
public static function hookData() {
 return array_merge_recursive( array (
  'userBar' => 
  array (
    1 => 
    array (
      'selector' => '#cUserLink',
      'type' => 'add_before',
      'content' => '{{if \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->canAccessModule( \IPS\Application\Module::get( \'nexus\', \'store\' ) )}}
	{template="cartHeader" app="nexus" group="store" params=""}
{{endif}}',
    ),
    2 => 
    array (
      'selector' => '#elSignInLink',
      'type' => 'add_before',
      'content' => '{{if \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->canAccessModule( \IPS\Application\Module::get( \'nexus\', \'store\' ) )}}
	{template="cartHeader" app="nexus" group="store" params=""}
{{endif}}',
    ),
  ),
  'mobileNavigation' => 
  array (
    0 => 
    array (
      'selector' => '#elUserNav_mobile',
      'type' => 'add_inside_end',
      'content' => '{{if \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->canAccessModule( \IPS\Application\Module::get( \'nexus\', \'store\' ) )}}
	{template="cartHeaderMobile" app="nexus" group="store" params=""}
{{endif}}',
    ),
    1 => 
    array (
      'selector' => '#elMobileDrawer > div.ipsDrawer_menu > div.ipsDrawer_content',
      'type' => 'add_inside_start',
      'content' => '{{if !\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->member_id AND \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->canAccessModule( \IPS\Application\Module::get( \'nexus\', \'store\' ) )}}
<ul id=\'elUserNav_mobile\' class=\'ipsList_inline signed_in ipsClearfix\'>
	{template="cartHeaderMobile" app="nexus" group="store" params=""}
</ul>
{{endif}}',
    ),
  ),
), parent::hookData() );
}
/* End Hook Data */

Contents of the tmp file

I am beginning to think I am unlucky here.

So far, just about every IPB install has gone the way of the dinosaur while in development mode. With errors like:

[[Template core/admin/global/globalTemplate is throwing an error. This theme may be out of date. Run the support tool in the AdminCP to restore the default theme.]]

There is either missing css or missing template files when in developer mode.

So far, I have had to reinstall my localhost developer build 5 times and it has just happened again. I didn't even get to the stage of installing my applications or plugins, installed, turned on dev mode and I got the above error.

I have downloaded the IPB install and developer files numerous times to make sure that it wasn't a bad zip

21 hours ago, TDBF said:

Sorry for the time it has taken to get this done. I had lots of issues with my test install and required help from support.

Finally got the new version upload and waiting approval from the moderators.

This new version has a ton of new features, changes and many bug fixes from the previous version.

Sorry guys, It got kicked back to me for a couple of issues, these have been sorted and I am waiting on it being approved 🙂

Sorry for the time it has taken to get this done. I had lots of issues with my test install and required help from support.

Finally got the new version upload and waiting approval from the moderators.

This new version has a ton of new features, changes and many bug fixes from the previous version.