temporary suspension of users

[BluSmurf]

Well sometimes we encounter some very irritating users and I'm wondering if there's a hack that allows only Admin to suspend the user for a period of time. Like soccer, after two yellow cards come the red card, permanent suspension. One yellow card = 1 week of suspension, second yellow card = 2 weeks.. the next is the red card, permanent suspension.

This would be a good hack and I'm sure alot of vb owners would love to have this.

[floleb7]

i have made a punition hack
with this a user who have been punished would be automatically send to a site, for more fun choose a funny site
i can post this hack if you want

[BluSmurf]

that would be cool.. how about redirecting the user to a page which says he's suspended. Does it have a time limit? Like I want to suspend a user for a week or so and after the time is up he'll be able to post again.

[floleb7]

you can create a page for this
for time suspension i think it's possible but i can't do that
The "ban" is in a table of the database so i think it's possible to create a ban with time

i will put my hack this week if i can

[ThomasP]

Hi,

would love to see the "Soccer like Suspension Hack" :D
cu,
-Tom

[JJR512]

I just did it in what seems to me to be a very simple way. It isn't a hack at all. I just made a new usergroup called Suspended, adjusted the privelages to be appropriate, and move someone into that group. Then I send him/her an email detailing what I did and why I did it. I can leave the person in there as long as I want, from a minute to a day to a week to however long. I don't feel there should be a pre-set time because every situation is different. The cause of the suspension may be relatively minor or major, the person may apologize, may try to get smart, whatever.

[ThomasP]

Yes, right. Plus a hack would mean to much work for that effect...

BUT it would allow a much more efficient rule-based suspension mechanism.

Suspensions after the the 2 yellow/1 red card is intuitive as nearly everyone knows soccer.

As it is a rule, which works automatically on the board, the suspended ones couldn't blame moderator xy for effecting it - since it was done automatically.

So it takes the stress out of the situation...
but that's only my 2cents on that,
-Tom

[JJR512]

ThomasP, it still isn't a rule-based system. You seem to think that the suspension would be automatic, but it isn't. It still requires an Administrator to put it in effect. There is really no way to make an automatic suspension system. It would require an extremely complex set of logic rules that would have to be custom-written for every different set of rules that board owners might have.

And not nearly everybody knows soccer. That's a Euro-centric way of thinking. Americans don't care much about it. I have no idea about any yellow cards, red cards, or blue and pink polka-dotted cards. But no matter what kind of system you want to describe it to, it still has to be manually effected by a living person.

[BluSmurf]

Of course if the culprit apologise for his mistake we can always un-suspend him.

When a suspended person log in, he will be directed to a page stating why he was suspended or a pre-set page telling the user he is suspended.

Maybe a yellow card just below the user's login name would be good. After 2 yellow cards, the next card would be a red one which mean permanent suspension.

Good luck with the hack!