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Re: Automatic Time Ban [message #25438 is a reply to message #25407]

Wed, 08 June 2005 14:42

Zodiak

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Well, perhaps an example will do.

My friend runs http://www.fifasoccer.ru forums, and we have a special ban policy there, like for minor stuff a user is banned for 3 days, for more major stuff he is banned for 7 days etc. We use this every day, and since we have LOTS and LOTS of users who are often not very rule-obidient, we ban a lot. I see no way how we can remember everyone who was banned and when to unban him. There comes vBulletin where we just specify for how long we ban the user and totally forget about him for ever. I really see no way we could do it manually.

Same with www.ag.ru forums, where bans are often as well, and people are banned for like a month. We'd have to give the admins a medal if not for automatic ban feature there. So judging by two popular forums, this feature is very needed.

Of course, those forums are... you know, teen-based (who are noy very bright, and frankly, I am sick of them Smile

) so bans are often whereas some serious support forums or something like that don't really need that feature since a user is either totally normal or he is a brat and is therefore banned for ever. And I haven't really seen 3-day or month-bans on English forums so maybe that's why you don't see this feature useful, but isn't it logical not to totally ban the user but sort of 'punish' him for doing something wrong so he can learn his lesson (yeah, rarely happens :-/) and remain on the forums.

Anyways, it's totally up to you, but I see that as a needed feature and judging by my poor knowledge of PHP Smile

, it's not very difficult to implent... It won't hurt being there, right? But some people actually can't live without it so why not put it there?

Regards,
Gleb

I yam what I yam!

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		Automatic Time Ban By: Zodiak on Wed, 08 June 2005 11:22
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Ilia on Wed, 08 June 2005 14:32
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Zodiak on Wed, 08 June 2005 14:42
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Ilia on Wed, 08 June 2005 14:51
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: naudefj on Wed, 08 June 2005 15:56
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Art Wolf on Thu, 09 June 2005 08:35
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Zodiak on Wed, 08 June 2005 16:07
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Zodiak on Thu, 09 June 2005 15:54
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Crimson on Sun, 12 June 2005 03:00
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Anonymous on Sun, 12 June 2005 05:37
		Re : Automatic Time Ban By: DogManStar on Tue, 14 June 2005 17:32
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Ilia on Tue, 14 June 2005 21:56
		Re: Automatic Time Ban By: Zodiak on Wed, 15 June 2005 05:02

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