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Banning users

Banning users

Robb G

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Apr 24, 2012 - 2:05 am

How about a feature to ban users? I know users can be deleted, but it would be a nice feature be able to ban members, while still keeping the posts they made. There would be a banned status under their user name on the posts they made.

Yellow Swordfish

Glinton, England

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Apr 24, 2012 - 2:33 am

Unless you keep a really tight rein on who is who and check your membership at every turn, banning users is not such an easy task. They can re-appear under a different name, different email address and even a different IP.

There are WP plugins, I believe, that will do this for you but they will never be 100% successful. This is one of the reasons we have never attempted to build into SP anything other than what we already have.

Within SP itself, I would recommend you define a User Group. Call it 'banned' (for example). Place your banned users in to that group. At forum level grant that User Group a permission set of No Access - or equivalent. You have achieved the same goal as their posts are retained but they can no longer post to the forums or even read them. Until they possibly re-appear under a new guise of course!