Forums - Banning Users
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d3ad1ysp0rk
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Re: Forums - Banning Users
I Like the idea but if you start having quite a few banned people and they start finding out about it they can just spam the hell out of your site and it would start to fill up your mysql dbs and that would be a hassleGrim... wrote:Hi all.
Stealth ban (I came up with this at about midnight last night) - Any posts made by the user cannot be seen by anyone except that user - he posts as normal and thinks everything is going fine, but no-one else has to put up with him.[/list]
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kettle_drum
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How would you implement the stealth ban when the user logs out? or goes to the site on another computer - i.e. one that wouldnt know it was him?
The user requesting the member to be banned could work like the warning thing on AIM - just adds a certain warning level, and maybe have this increase the amount of time a user has to wait to post another thread.
You could just add the stealth ban as a kind of ignore for users themselfs as well....i dont like....jason or whoever...so i, as a member choose not to have any of his posts shown to me. This way the user doesnt get to see posts from people he/she doesnt like, but other people - who may find the info useful - do.
The user requesting the member to be banned could work like the warning thing on AIM - just adds a certain warning level, and maybe have this increase the amount of time a user has to wait to post another thread.
You could just add the stealth ban as a kind of ignore for users themselfs as well....i dont like....jason or whoever...so i, as a member choose not to have any of his posts shown to me. This way the user doesnt get to see posts from people he/she doesnt like, but other people - who may find the info useful - do.
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I'd always have a warning system of some sort.. whether shown to users or not. Stealth ban would just be an option in the ban list, it'd take immediate effect. Could have a date for when it takes effect be selectable.. This would add the ability to create temporary accounts for people or clients maybe..
An ignore list for users to have is a nice idea, add to that a "friends" list.. which could then be a link "view all friends' new posts" or something...
An ignore list for users to have is a nice idea, add to that a "friends" list.. which could then be a link "view all friends' new posts" or something...
One of the main plusses of this ban would be that the user wouldn't know he was banned - he would have no reason to change his login details so the flag would be held against his username.kettle_drum wrote:How would you implement the stealth ban when the user logs out? or goes to the site on another computer - i.e. one that wouldnt know it was him?
As far as he is concerned, he has no reason to change it!
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kettle_drum
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No what i ment was, the ban would be against the user. So when the user was logged in, he would see his posts - even though other people wouldnt - the stealth ban. But when the user logs out, or visits the forum from another computer, his posts would be missing and he would know he was banned, so it just seems a bit of a waste to store posts that only that person can see - they could even just completly spam the forum to fill up the database, and other people woud be unaware of it.