Topic: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?
I want to ban a user so they can't read either. Is there a way to do this?
Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?
That's what happens when a user gets banned 
Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?
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?
Only by banning the username/email, which would be pretty ineffective 
Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?
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
6 2005-09-28 10:37 (edited by Smartys 2005-09-28 10:38)
Re: Will ban disallow reading the forum too?
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?
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?
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.
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