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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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May 24, 2009 · 5:05 am · Edited

A few things.

  1. A user asked f we could not display the list of all members as it might encourage someone to send PM's to everyone – or, if you like, spam everyone. Disregardng that aspect it might be a good idea to make both the 'Users Select' and the 'Buddy Select' into options. This would still leave the Send PM Button aganst posts and members list.
  2. The only way to ban a member from using PM's is to create a special user group just for them. I am wodering if a short cut to doing that might not be had on the Admin's side of a members profile. Thoughts?

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
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May 24, 2009 · 6:17 am

no issues with #1… as a corollary to that though, I have though we always needed the ability to enter a users name for a pm…  I know we deal off of id, but if we turn of the user select, we really need a text entry, comma separated list…  just have to compare the name entry to the display name for a match to get the id…

for #2, could be messy – or at least more if/then checks..  but no objections… maybe rather than through a profile, just another manage user page where we keep some blacklist…  then whenever we run through our sfc_update_member_pm() function that updates the pm column in sfmembers it can apply that blacklist?  then, no extra checks required…  just a thought…

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Member since Nov 2008
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May 24, 2009 · 10:58 am

Like the idea of a blacklist but you do know what that will lead to don't you?

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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May 24, 2009 · 11:33 am

We will have people asking us to build a blacklist for this and a blacklist for that and can we add this in and that to that blacklist… etc…