suggestion (banning related)

[okrogius]

By default have a "banned users" usergroup like there are coppa, super mods, admin, etc.

If someone tries toa ccess vb3 while in that usergroup they should get a custom ban message (easy part). However what would bea great thing is an unban ticket system. When someone is banned and views the "you're banned" page they can leave a ticket asking about their ban, etc. The ticket will be acessible from mod cp and mods can reply to it, the reply will be sent to users via email.

Thanks in advance for consideration.

[Semperfidelis]

Additional to above, if the page displayed could also display
- when they were banned
- why they were banned
- who they were banned by
- when the banning will be removed (if applicable)
that would be pretty sweet

[filburt1]

If you ban via the mod CP then it will make a Banned By Moderators usergroup if it doesn't already exist.

[okrogius]

True but i'd like that group to exist by default, and have a specific "you've been banned for violating our tos" message instead of the "acess denied due to one of the following reasons...".

As far as why, when that's not necaessary as the unban ticket system would accomplish that perfectly. Mods could reply to any questions about the ban through it.

[Fallout2man]

Originally posted by Codename49
True but i'd like that group to exist by default, and have a specific "you've been banned for violating our tos" message instead of the "acess denied due to one of the following reasons...".

As far as why, when that's not necaessary as the unban ticket system would accomplish that perfectly. Mods could reply to any questions about the ban through it.

If you want to do that, then edit the show_nopermission(); part of functions.php
I'm thinking most of this, aside from the default group (come on are you really that lazy :p) could be made as a hack.

[okrogius]

Originally posted by Fallout2man


If you want to do that, then edit the show_nopermission(); part of functions.php
I'm thinking most of this, aside from the default group (come on are you really that lazy :p) could be made as a hack.

Indeed it could, I made it and it's running quite good on my board. I have a different access denied message for banned users, regular users, and users awaiting email confirmation. The thing is that this is so simple and so beneficial to many people it would be a good addition to the default install.