Warning users, does it have any sense ?

Highway of Life · Post by **Highway of Life** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 4:57 am

If they had endless valid emails, then they could just continue creating accounts... but you can ban people based on IP, email, or username. Or any combination of the three... so that is really not an issue.

APTX · Post by **APTX** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:23 pm

Endless valid emails shouldn't be a problem... there is no way of banning someone permanantly but the banning process is usually faster than the process of evading bans so the attacker might give up first.

Highway of Life · Post by **Highway of Life** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:29 am

Hmm... there is a setting for "permanent ban", but I assume you mean the person, and not the screenname, IP, or email.
And yes, you can never really ban the person completely.

USUALLY if a person is banned, they get mad and never want to come back to the site anyways... unless they are just persistant, the site has something they want, or just want to cause trouble.

d4rkst4r123 · Post by **d4rkst4r123** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:23 pm

My idea here is probably way in over my head but here it goes...

You could like a "Criminal Record" of everyone. And keep a record of who does what thats wrong. And say a user does so many violations, a PM would be sent to a moderator telling the moderator that user has x ammount of warnings and should be banned.

stubbers · Post by **stubbers** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:24 am

d4rkst4r123 wrote: My idea here is probably way in over my head but here it goes...

You could like a "Criminal Record" of everyone. And keep a record of who does what thats wrong. And say a user does so many violations, a PM would be sent to a moderator telling the moderator that user has x ammount of warnings and should be banned.

Are you talking for the one board or a phpBB wide blacklist of a particular user???

The one board is the idea of the Warnings, if a mod notices a user doing something stupid he warns the user and can check other warnings on the user before warning the user. Then an admin can take a look at the warnings and if one user has too many can ban them.

However if you are talking phpBB wide, it would be too hard to track... Plus once you link all the forums running phpBB3.0 into one database you end up with some VERY VERY interesting privacy 'violations'...

Cheers,
Stubbers

balding_ape · Post by **balding_ape** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:53 pm

Redscape wrote: I find the whole "warning" system dubious at best. What point is there in banning a member when that person can simply create a new account? Worse, by banning someone you throw down a potential challenge of who can outlast whom in a war of mischievous posts and false accounts. Far better in most cases to contact an offending user with a hand-written note which is firm but not connoting Moderator anxiety or hot-headedness over the matter than to issue multiple "warning" e-tickets to the repeat offender.

Yes, there are the trolls that refuse to go away. That's the case with any forum large enough, or any forum about a contentious subject. Warnings are merely a tool of moderators, and proper training of mods should minimalise any problems. Using just plain, customized PMs is just as much of a problem without proper mod training.

The benefits are: record of problems associated with a particular user (again, very useful when there are many moderators, or the need to oversee moderators), and which mods disciplined them and how. You can audit problem users and problem mods.

d4rkst4r123 · Post by **d4rkst4r123** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:33 pm

No, that would be a terrible idea to have a wide phpbb record. Im just talking about a single phpbb board.

balding_ape · Post by **balding_ape** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:20 am

d4rkst4r123 wrote: No, that would be a terrible idea to have a wide phpbb record. Im just talking about a single phpbb board.

Yup, that's what I'm talking about, too. It would be impractical and generally unuseful to try to create some kind of universal list due to different board standards, different administrative attitudes, etc.

I'm talking about a single board with between 5 and 20 mods. Especially such a board that supports a commercial or organizational endeavor, such as software support, game support and community interaction, etc.

stubbers · Post by **stubbers** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:52 pm

balding_ape wrote:
d4rkst4r123 wrote: No, that would be a terrible idea to have a wide phpbb record. Im just talking about a single phpbb board.

Yup, that's what I'm talking about, too. It would be impractical and generally unuseful to try to create some kind of universal list due to different board standards, different administrative attitudes, etc.

I'm talking about a single board with between 5 and 20 mods. Especially such a board that supports a commercial or organizational endeavor, such as software support, game support and community interaction, etc.

You are all talking about this like it isn't included, that's the whole idea of warnings. Other mods can veiw the warnings thus allowing mods to leave notes to eachother about certain users.

Cheers,
Stubbers

balding_ape · Post by **balding_ape** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:49 am

I thought we were talking about whether or not it was an important/good idea, regardless of its current state of includedness?

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