I get teh same error on line 1864

Rather than do a hack, I created a special forum for the banned:

Village of the Banned
You're here because you were banned. If you need clarification start a thread and a moderator will respond.

Permissions are set so it can only be viewed by banned members, admins, mods & supermods, and when a member is banned that's the ONLY forum they can view so they know they're banned. Banned members can only see and reply to their own threads. I rarely get email involving bannings since I set this up 3 months ago. You can set the policy anyway that's best for you, but mine is that only the mod who did the actual banning should respond, and if they're not around an admin will handle it.

Can you tell me the exact steps you went through to make this possible? Each time I try to do this I make the forum etc, and when I ban someone they get the no permission screen, even though the permissions are set. Does this apply to temp bans, or people I've specifically moved to the banned usergroup? The reason I'm asking is that mods can't specifically ban people, they can only temp ban them

instead of banning them, change the banned group to only have access to that forum. hide the forum from the rest of the users though. when you want to "ban" someone, put them in the banned group.

That's all very well, but when a moderator places a temp ban on someone it moves them to the usergroup that during setup was explicitly named as a banned user group, therefore all they ever see are no permissions. For the village of the banned to work, admins have to manually move users over to that group, which makes all the modertors redundant since I'm not about to grant admin access to all my moderators.

Banned users all go into the same usergroup, "Banned by Moderators" so it applies to all bans (temp or perm). Here's the way I did it:

1) Setup new forum with No Parent, named it Village of the Banned and stuck it on the bottom of my board.

2) Under Forums & Moderators click on Forum Permissions, find your ban forum and click Deny All. Then add permissions for the specific usergroups you want to be able to use the forum and set their privileges however you prefer.

That's all there is to it. I'm guessing yours isn't working right because you made it a subforum. If you make it a subforum you also have to add permissions for the banned usergroup to it's parent forum.

Nah I'll tell you what it was... my pervious Usergroup "Banned" had permissions set to no for everything, so the usergroup permission were taking priority over the forum permissions.

Id like to see this hack myself.....

In my opinion the solution using a forum is far better than a hack. No code to add, nothing. :)

This shouldn't even have to be a hack... A "ban reason" should of been implemented as a base feature in vB3... I don't know why they don't have it yet... I'm sure every forum admin is tired of people emailing them asking why they get banned...