I like the idea of this, I saw it was posted as a request for VB3 over at vbulletin.com. :)

This would be great. :)

This sounds like a cool idea - I could probably do it if Dan doesn't...

If Dan is going to though, a suggestion - Perhaps, if they try and reply to the thread, there is an error message, stating that they cannot post in this thread because they are banned from replying, and the reason that the mod/admin gave for banning them from that thread;)

Satan

Very nice idea, I'll be keeping an eye on the development of this hack... Would be perfect for my forums where political/religious discussions tend to turn into abusive (even racist) arguments. :(

Looks like people love my idea :D. Whoever makes it, big respect to you, because this truly is a complicated hack (well from the amount I requested anyway!).

I suggest creating a table with these fields:

recordid - threadid - userid

Then you can write into this table whenever admin ban a user or check userid&threadid in the table in showthread.php. Similiar system used for thread ratings..

But don't look at me, I was not even suppose to linger here and give suggestions.. I must be working :)

hmm, yes that's another method, but from what i can see it will produce an extra query in showthread.php then.

my suggestion wouldn't

on the other side your suggestion uses less db space than my way with a mediumtextfield...

Just a quick reply to let you all know that i've not forgotten about this. I'll have this done within the next 10 days.

Your 10 days are up :p. j/k..

What's the latest?

Sorry that I never got back to this thread. Thanks for the reminder. I got really busy with my board and had to put this on hold. I started work on this again a couple days ago and I've done probably about 25% of the hack since the beginning of the week. I'll try to get this done by the end of the week. Please remind me if you dont hear from me by then. This is actually quite a big hack.