Right now as it stands one can either ban someone entirely from the site or just mute them. I was thinking, would it be viable to add an option to keep a banned person in just specific boards or just one board? That way, if they were a problem in some parts of the forum but not in others, the admin can choose to cut down where the perp can go on the forum.
A new banning option?
Sara
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Arantor
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That is actually doable already in Wedge though it's not obvious. Groups can be limited to certain boards so you can create a Banned group and disable access to all but specific boards.
There is a blog post somewhere on the various overhauls that I think need to occur to the banning system.
There is a blog post somewhere on the various overhauls that I think need to occur to the banning system.
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lazyt
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I've actually done that in SMF. It's more work for a few minutes but it saves so much moderation time it's worth it.
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It's a LOT more work in SMF since there's no way to exclude groups from board access, you can only 'not grant access' as opposed to 'refusing access'.
lazyt
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True, to me it was worth the effort.
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Oh, I'm not disagreeing that it's worth the effort but that on SMF it's a LOT of effort. I redesigned how board access works and you can deny groups to boards. Though I also made it so that board visibility is not the same as board access, so you could make a donation-only board visible to everyone but only give access to people who've paid.
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That would be interesting. I see a few real possibilities there.
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That's why I wrote it ;)