PunBB Forums — Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

null@example.com (Speechless) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:45:54 +0000

just create a group that are similare to people that are not register. That way, they will be:
a) force to make a new account [and you can figure out it is the same person by ip address. hopefully u ban their email, else u have to check that out too]
b) mad, leave forever, but i don't think you are going to happy if they start spreading word about how bad that forum is.

Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

null@example.com (t2) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:20:01 +0000

I know it's not what I originally wanted, but it sounds like a good method of handling trolls without pissing them off. Just let them think they are posting.

Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

null@example.com (Smartys) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:37:44 +0000

That's not a feature, that's a mod
And that isn't what you wanted either
The idea behind that is you let them think they're posting

Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

null@example.com (t2) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:53:51 +0000

Hmm this sucks.

I found a feature on vBulletin that sounds like a good idea. Any chance we could have it in punbb?

Quote:
Originally Posted by atvpros
...if someone likes to cause that much trouble, they usually do not go away. We use vBulletin, and while you can ban an IP, there are other methods in which they can re-join and get back on.
Since you use vBulletin you should check out the "Tachy goes to Coventry" option. It's the most effective banning tool for persistent troublemakers that I've come across. It's basically a global ignore, so the troublemaker can continue to post, but only the troublemaker and board admins can see those posts.
It's worked flawlessly so far on our 22,000+ member forum. We have about a dozen users in "Coventry."
vBulletin Options | User Banning Options | Tachy Goes to Coventry

Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

null@example.com (Smartys) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:42:46 +0000

Only by banning the username/email, which would be pretty ineffective

Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

null@example.com (t2) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:41:13 +0000

Oh perfect. That's the behavior I want. Another question. I have a user that is using AOL and their IP stats are the following:

207.200.116.6 Today 12:54:03 2 Find more users for this ip
207.200.116.196 Yesterday 17:27:48 5 Find more users for this ip
207.200.116.72 2005-09-09 17:22:21 1 Find more users for this ip
207.200.116.12 2005-08-09 16:31:14 2 Find more users for this ip
207.200.116.138 2005-07-22 16:11:12 1 Find more users for this ip
207.200.116.66 2005-05-06 14:26:28 1 Find more users for this ip
152.163.100.6

It looks like an aol user. The problem is there are 10-15 other users using the same IP (probably an aol proxy). Any way to single this user out?

Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

null@example.com (Smartys) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:19:34 +0000

That's what happens when a user gets banned

Will ban disallow reading the forum too?

null@example.com (t2) — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:18:10 +0000

I want to ban a user so they can't read either. Is there a way to do this?