Pavel Chernitsky

Being a fairly large community with quite a lot of traffic (in our country, relative to other site/communities in our niche) we started encouraging members to use our site as a platform for their own independent content.

So herein lies the question - we have statistics for forums, for clubs, even for the gallery. Why not have statistics for blogs? I've looked for plugins but there aren't any.
something like a youtube creators dashboard that will allow members who have blogs to view simple stats like total & average post views, total & average comments, view trend graph (hourly/daily) high/low activity hours and such, that way they make better informed decisions about their content. such simple stats can be extrapolated and used to learn when to post, what to write about or how long should the posts be etc.
feel free to add those statistics to 
If not, or at least in the meanwhile, we'll settle for a view count on the post "blocks" for now.
Thank you for reading this, and for totally agreeing with everything I wrote and working tirelessly to implement every single feature I've requested (and more) as soon as possible.
I've even added a design idea for the icon. you're welcome (No. of course I'm serious):

Being a fairly large community with quite a lot of traffic (in our country, relative to other site/communities in our niche) we started encouraging members to use our site as a platform for their own independent content.

So herein lies the question - we have statistics for forums, for clubs, even for the gallery. Why not have statistics for blogs? I've looked for plugins but there aren't any.
something like a youtube creators dashboard that will allow members who have blogs to view simple stats like total & average post views, total & average comments, view trend graph (hourly/daily) high/low activity hours and such, that way they make better informed decisions about their content. such simple stats can be extrapolated and used to learn when to post, what to write about or how long should the posts be etc.
feel free to add those statistics to 
If not, or at least in the meanwhile, we'll settle for a view count on the post "blocks" for now.
Thank you for reading this, and for totally agreeing with everything I wrote and working tirelessly to implement every single feature I've requested (and more) as soon as possible.
I've even added a design idea for the icon. you're welcome (No. of course I'm serious):

Well, crap.

BTW, I've finally sat down and edited the Warning-Points-Action thing so the system's somewhat reasonable:

All the sums in here need to be accumulated within one month. 
Also, using @Adriano Faria's WONDERFUL "Change Group After Ban Member via Warn System" Plugin, we're restricting moderated users from posting in our 'Off-Topic' forum (which is restricted for more "veteran" and rule abiding members), an Incredibly useful option that for some reason is still not shown in the plugin's description ahem ahem 😄   

We've recently launched a subscriber program and a donation campaign, and it's doing kinda meh. 
Suddenly! a wild idea appeared! 
Why not have a "X people got this" or some other variant of that next to the subscription/campaign name (or below it if it's super long)?
That way all those free loading non-sub scum could see how many people there are in the community who are so much better and more generous than they are, and then feel guilty and give us their money. of course they could also see no one's buying your crappy overpriced crap and just back out of the page sinisterly laughing.
Seriously though, all the crowdfunding sites do that, and peer pressure is a genuinely good sales tool. 
Technically this should be a cakewalk because you have that info plainly displayed in the subscription page in the ACP. 

Go into the members panel in the ACP, click the cog in the search bar, have it search for members with a 0 content count.
when you get the results, click the "Banned" button above the results table. 
From there you can prune the members found, or move them to another group (which if you delete, may(?) delete the users. I haven't tried it so I don't if it deletes all the users or just the group itself).
I'm sure if it'll do the trick, but at least it'll allow you to round all the banned users up and then probably have an easier time doing what you need with them.
 
screenshots for your convenience (the things you need are marked red; member names deleted for privacy):



 
 

Hey Jordan, 
As Paul said, we're using Google AdSense's Automatic ad system.

Members = people who are logged in.
Guest = members who aren't logged in OR don't have an account.
Visitors = members+guests.

Also, when you say "guest and member chart" are you talking about what is found in 'ACP->Statistics->Users->Online Users'? Because if you are, do note that this is NOT an actual traffic chart and if you sum up the numbers you WILL NOT get the number of visitors your site has, as explained here. 
 

Members = people who are logged in.
Guest = members who aren't logged in OR don't have an account.
Visitors = members+guests.

Also, when you say "guest and member chart" are you talking about what is found in 'ACP->Statistics->Users->Online Users'? Because if you are, do note that this is NOT an actual traffic chart and if you sum up the numbers you WILL NOT get the number of visitors your site has, as explained here. 
 

Members = people who are logged in.
Guest = members who aren't logged in OR don't have an account.
Visitors = members+guests.

Also, when you say "guest and member chart" are you talking about what is found in 'ACP->Statistics->Users->Online Users'? Because if you are, do note that this is NOT an actual traffic chart and if you sum up the numbers you WILL NOT get the number of visitors your site has, as explained here. 
 

Go into the members panel in the ACP, click the cog in the search bar, have it search for members with a 0 content count.
when you get the results, click the "Banned" button above the results table. 
From there you can prune the members found, or move them to another group (which if you delete, may(?) delete the users. I haven't tried it so I don't if it deletes all the users or just the group itself).
I'm sure if it'll do the trick, but at least it'll allow you to round all the banned users up and then probably have an easier time doing what you need with them.
 
screenshots for your convenience (the things you need are marked red; member names deleted for privacy):



 
 

Go into the members panel in the ACP, click the cog in the search bar, have it search for members with a 0 content count.
when you get the results, click the "Banned" button above the results table. 
From there you can prune the members found, or move them to another group (which if you delete, may(?) delete the users. I haven't tried it so I don't if it deletes all the users or just the group itself).
I'm sure if it'll do the trick, but at least it'll allow you to round all the banned users up and then probably have an easier time doing what you need with them.
 
screenshots for your convenience (the things you need are marked red; member names deleted for privacy):



 
 

Go into the members panel in the ACP, click the cog in the search bar, have it search for members with a 0 content count.
when you get the results, click the "Banned" button above the results table. 
From there you can prune the members found, or move them to another group (which if you delete, may(?) delete the users. I haven't tried it so I don't if it deletes all the users or just the group itself).
I'm sure if it'll do the trick, but at least it'll allow you to round all the banned users up and then probably have an easier time doing what you need with them.
 
screenshots for your convenience (the things you need are marked red; member names deleted for privacy):



 
 

That's how we do things. 
Pick them up, then THROW THEM DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND BASH 'EM ON THE HEAD WITH A FOLDABLE PICNIC CHAIR 🤣
Also, please make it happen. I WILL* name my next child after whoever pushes this to the top of the list. 
 
*Not really. Just making empty promises I have absolutely no intention of upholding. 

Naaaa Downvoting is GREAT! 
We have it enabled in a fairly large (in our country's scale) community with around 16-20K content items being posted monthly.
When we enabled it, we opened a sticky thread warning people to use downvotes responsibly and only in cases where truly needed, like for "advice" that can cause injuries or monetary damage or for just boring, crappy, content. We've even called them that - "Bad Idea" and "Boring". 
Those were enabled together with positive and neutral reactions, three of each.
Our mods questioned the decision giving the same (solid) reasoning you guys did, but ultimately after having this system run for almost a year, negative reactions account for only 1.4% (Bad Idea) and 0.3% (Boring). Furthermore, after the initial buzz and some misuse, members who were doing it were issued PMs asking them to stop and explaining the importance of using the negative reactions wisely and sparingly, and explaining the implications of over-using downvotes can have on the community (those were very few members, and you can obviously Copy-Paste the PM). 

Eventually, the community rights itself and irons out the few and minor cases of downvote misuse. Users who deserve mostly high reputation get it despite the occasional downvote. It also works the other way around, for pointless babbling users who have a tendency to just waste everyone's time. And since there are very few of those, they "feel bad" and try to right their ways and get back on the community's good side. 
 
Those are my two cents.
P.S, there is another cent - you should try disabling all or at least all non-neutral reactions in a casual/offtopic/banter forum. Because from what we learned - they attract some of the most active members, both in term of posting and reacting. they tend to sort of break the "normal" scoring system because they get positive reputation without actually being "useful" to the regular community, and can appear to be more knowledgeable than they actually are.

I LOVE(!!!!) IPS's widgets/blocks thing. They're so easy to use, intuitive, give you the ability to show flexible information literally within three clicks, and all that. I'm sure everyone is well aware of how freakin' awesome they are.
BUT, and that's avery big but, at the same time, they are so stupendously limited. if you want a block on top, it has to be full width and predetermined height. you can have it either on the left or right - not both. you can't change the height, whether it's in the side bar or the the main body.
And it drives me mad. I mean, you can change the Pages app layout to two of three columns, you can make a WYSIWYG block, a text one, and even an image carousel. why not have the ability to add two or three blocks in the same row? or even allow to just drop more and more block and have the ones already there automatically get narrower? and maybe even manually adjust the height of a block/row of blocks? This will give community managers SO MUCH more power to be able to "push" things they want to their members without having to push other important things to far down the page. 

Go into the members panel in the ACP, click the cog in the search bar, have it search for members with a 0 content count.
when you get the results, click the "Banned" button above the results table. 
From there you can prune the members found, or move them to another group (which if you delete, may(?) delete the users. I haven't tried it so I don't if it deletes all the users or just the group itself).
I'm sure if it'll do the trick, but at least it'll allow you to round all the banned users up and then probably have an easier time doing what you need with them.
 
screenshots for your convenience (the things you need are marked red; member names deleted for privacy):



 
 

I LOVE(!!!!) IPS's widgets/blocks thing. They're so easy to use, intuitive, give you the ability to show flexible information literally within three clicks, and all that. I'm sure everyone is well aware of how freakin' awesome they are.
BUT, and that's avery big but, at the same time, they are so stupendously limited. if you want a block on top, it has to be full width and predetermined height. you can have it either on the left or right - not both. you can't change the height, whether it's in the side bar or the the main body.
And it drives me mad. I mean, you can change the Pages app layout to two of three columns, you can make a WYSIWYG block, a text one, and even an image carousel. why not have the ability to add two or three blocks in the same row? or even allow to just drop more and more block and have the ones already there automatically get narrower? and maybe even manually adjust the height of a block/row of blocks? This will give community managers SO MUCH more power to be able to "push" things they want to their members without having to push other important things to far down the page. 

This version is now available on marketplace.

Great! Just updated and can confirm it's working flawlessly. 
Thank you again.

Version 1.0.1 submitted to the marketplace:

User can't create new topics in the chosen forums:


Or reply to existing topics in chose forums:

Hey, I've just updated the plugin to the latest version and see you've turned it into an app with the settings being in a separate place (as shown in the thumbnails), but the description (in the marketplace) still points to Plugins -> Dead Topic Protection -> Pencil. So it took me a while (longer than I'd like to admit 😄) to go and look at the thumbs and find it. So I guess you might want to update the description. 
 
*I'm posting it here and not via PM to maybe help other blind idiots like yours truly who might have trouble finding the settings after updating.

Banning, blocking and moderating problematic users is all well and good, but if the user decides to open a new account and the site's admins can't detect it as a duplicate, all those tools are pretty useless.
I saw that through the years there have been a few plugins developed by the community, but I think that this should be a built-in integral functionality of the suite. Also the plugins are currently not available for purchase so I'm salty 😄 
What do you guys think? Should we have a built-in tool to help us find and intercept trolls and toxic users? Especially given how fairly simple is should be to implement (makes a cookie and then checks for it).

See, it would have been more clever if you had marked your answer as Marked as Solved.  That would have been meta. 
And a good demonstration of the software.  

Not as far as I'm aware... Big sad.

We've recently launched a subscriber program and a donation campaign, and it's doing kinda meh. 
Suddenly! a wild idea appeared! 
Why not have a "X people got this" or some other variant of that next to the subscription/campaign name (or below it if it's super long)?
That way all those free loading non-sub scum could see how many people there are in the community who are so much better and more generous than they are, and then feel guilty and give us their money. of course they could also see no one's buying your crappy overpriced crap and just back out of the page sinisterly laughing.
Seriously though, all the crowdfunding sites do that, and peer pressure is a genuinely good sales tool. 
Technically this should be a cakewalk because you have that info plainly displayed in the subscription page in the ACP.