UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums General Off Topic Suspended Users - an option

Since attaching files isn't an option in the Suggestions Forum yet... (*ahem*)

Just wanted to share how Woot! (woot.com) deals with suspensions. Kinda neat (altho I whole-heartedly disagree that the user should've been suspended, based on this comment):

lol that's definately differant

Something like this could be a cool extension of the new banning feature

(Would save me the trouble of manually replacing their current title with "suspended" or "banned" )

lol i wouldn't mind seing it as well... as well as some sort of strike feature ...

You know, wehre mod's can strike a user for violating site rules; three strikes and the user is banned.. number of bans defineable by the admin, number of days banned/restricted decided by the admin, etc...

I wouldn't mind seeing that either

I like it too.

Policing a forum and enforcing it is always the
biggest pain of all.

Anything automatic is good for me

I do like it, the 28hrs to go is neat,
that should be included with ubb

I guess they have been tripped over to Read only too

Wow just wondering what kind of board members you guys get. In 6 years we have not banned any user that I recall.

I ban one a month on average - usually because the register and spam the forums advertising other inferior forums.

I hardly ever BAN people, only those who've broken the rules multiple times and been SUSPENDED already a few times. Three strikes, y'know? Then again, I've banned people after 3 stupid posts before - don't get me while in a bad mood!

lol i ban upwards to 20... That includes spammers, people who don't know how to follow the rules, people asking how to do illegal activities, etc. That's just at UGN; now theres also the debate forum for an ex employer, however this site gets a crapload of spammers (using phpbb, the biggest spammers paradise ever)

Guess I'll just have to thank God that so far we don't have this issue.

No BANS, No Suspensions, and No Spam (1 or 2 but no flow of spam, just deleted the post not even the account and they didn't post again)

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yeh, phpbb is the largest pile of crap ever; i'm waiting on rick to finalize the importer before i move that site to the ubb though .