I imagine I can't.. but it seems reasonable to have a checkbox in the Member Information / Permissions to disallow individuals from using the Shout.

All in all, my posters love it, and it's a nice community builder.. but I've got one or two people that abuse it.
Rather than ban them (which would be overkill for the situation) I would prefer to block their access to the Shout.

Shout should be a privilege and not a right

Currently, there is no way to limit such access.

However, there are several feature requests for more stringent group abilities

yay!

*hopes one of them involves forum leaders*

IMHO - Abusing the Shoutbox is abusing your site. And abuses to your site should be dealt with appropriately, regardless of the method of abuse. Just hand out suspensions and they'll get the hint.

agreed

God this feels like spamming, but agree with the chaps above,
hence ive turned mine off. (Shout box that is)

LOL - mine it far too popular - we can get hundreds of posts over a day on it. To be honest I am finding it is building a good community - if people do abuse it then their messages are soon vanished

I will only delete messages if they swear in it - but on the whole people have fun with it. For example when we had heavy snow a couple of days ago - the members were having a snowball fight LOL

However I agree that it and most others items must be group based - items like this can be solely for premium members.

I like that word Premium Members

My community (of cheapskates) would revolt if I made'm pay for the Shout Box!

'eh if you where to use a java irc chat addong :ahem: you could just ban people from the channel