Very similar to the current system if not the exact same except looking at the UserID it looks at the IP address(es) stored. Of course an option to chose either UserID or IP ban would be helpful too. Hopefully that makes sense.

OK, let's try and put that in words:

I add an option in AWS Warning Options saying something "When a user gets banned, do you want to ban his IP Address as well?" Yes/No.

From what I see until now, vB stores only one IP address per member.

If an admin has that Option set to Yes, whenever a member gets banned, either for the ban duration, or for ever, his IP gets added in the banned IP list, as well as his user name in the banned users list. If this is a temporary ban, when the user gets unbanned, then his IP address is removed for the banned IP list, if he is permanently banned, the IP stays there for ever. Would that be what you want?

Rgds

Hi John, the AWS works great, I cannot thank you enough for it.

I ran a search and I didn't find anything about this so I'm suggesting an option under the "Viewing Options" in AdminCP where you can enable or disable the publicity of each warning log of a member.

The "View ______'s Warnings" only is allowed to moderators and admins right now so there could be an option to enable it so that it's public for everyone to see.

I run a forum that runs RPG item auctions for items, so I would like all my members to see the reasons why the person is a bad trader. Thanks for your great work and I really hope this suggestion is brought through.

Well, that's easy to do yourself, just edit functions_showthread.php and find:

Replace that with:

Now, the View XYZ's warnings will be always visible. However, that might be an overkill, since the common users will be able to see all the warnings a user has, even those not related to trading.

By the way, what's RPG (I assume you do not mean the anicent IBM programming language) :)

Rgds

Hello,

I'm a german user of your script. First of all thank you for this great support.
Could you release a "phrased" version of your hack?
The translation would be even easier for me...

Thanks!

I understand and you are not the only one who had suggested this. But I have started doing this twice, and I give up. I just do not have the patience to do this.

Maybe some day.

Please try it again.

I'll translate it to German for my lifetime, I promise :)

Can't promise that. Too many things to do and too little time. However, if someone is interested in doing this, I would appreciate it.

Rgds

Im not sure if this has already been suggested, but if not here we go.

The forums all have an Alert system, whereby users can alert mods to posts.

So:

Alert comes in from user

Moderator receives Alert and reviews post

Moderator can choose action alert : send warning to post creator, ban creator etc
At the same time moderator can send a message to the person who raised the alert.
This response can be free text or chosen from a drop down.

I find that I have to private message a user to tell them we have dealt with their complaint. It would be great if we could respond to them at the same time we deal with the culprit.

I understand the usefulness, however I am not sure how it can be implemented. The moment the moderator reviews the offending post, he is no longer "in touch" with the member who send in the complain. I mean, in the standard procedure, all the reporting does, is to create an e-mail which is send to the moderators about the specific post. The moderator visits the forums, to check the post and does whatever he has to do, as far as the original poster is concerned, but there is nothing in vB connecting that post to the person who complained (at least I didn't find anything).

The only way something like that could be done (and I am talking off the top of my head now), is if you have installed Xenon's hack, which creates a new thread in a specified forum, every time someone reports a post to the moderators. What could be done in this case, is to add a button somewhere, with a predefined response which will be send to the user who reported the post. But then we are opening up other issues, such as "how would a moderator know, if another moderator has already answered this complain and clicked on the button?" etc. It can be done, by changing the thread's contents, but is this what you had initially in mind? As I said, I can't see how it can be done without Xenon's hack.

Rgds

Actually maybe all it needs is a system which auto replies to a user who makes an alert like "Thank you for raiseing an alert. The moderators are currently dealing with the problem. If you have further questions please e-mail blah blah blah"

I guess thats a seperate hack.

So you mean if someone reports a thread, he is automatically pm-ed back with a thank-you notice? Easy, but this has nothing to do with AWS. Actually, it's a great idea for another hack, as you said: "Customized PM responses". Interesting!

Rgds

I would like to help you but I do not know PHP :disappointed:

I would like to see warnings/alert messages being completely customizable. You would initialize the warning message in a compose box, but anything in it - including the Predefined Comment - can be changed by the admin/moderator before sending the warning.

Also, I would like to have the warning message contain a quoted copy of the warned post text rather than a link to the post since it is common to delete the post when it is worthy of a warning - and the warned person does not always remember what they posted that resulted in a warning.

Why is it that only Alerts have Predefined Comments? This would be useful for Warnings as well.

OK, let's take it one at a time.

1. Predefined comments for warnings. In a sense this exists already, it is the description of the Warning Type. You can use that as a comment, and just activate the option to send this as a comment. But you are right, this whole thing needs some change. Next version, hopefully.

2. Include a copy of the original message in the Warning PM or email. This can be done, maybe next version.

3. Customizable message. I do not think this will be done, the reason being that the whole idea behind AWS is to make the moderators life easier. If we were to add more work to them, it makes it a moot point.

OK, 2 out of three, you must be a happy man!! LoL

The No2 is done, but I need some help on the No1, so please check the thread I've created in this forum, for providing your opinions.

Rgds

Here is my feature requests,

I would like to enable/disable a default avatar that is shown when a user is moved into a usergroup.

So if they are disabled for one week, I would like there account to show this avatar. Maybe the possibilty of having more than one avatar that can be shown for each different usergroup.

My next idea:

When a user is moved into a banned group, I have rank images and when they are disabled it displays the disabled rank image but above it ads the temp banned text.
I would not like it to show the text when they are banned, I suppose I could just remove the rank title text from the templates.

Any comments

Wait a minute, this doesn't have much to do with AWS. What you want is a specific avatar per usergroup. So when a member is banned, his avatar changes to whatever the banned usergroup avatar is. Different hack alltogether.

As for the second idea, I am a little confused. You say you do not like the hack to show the "Temporarily banned" text. This text is their temporary title. You can change that, or remove that, by editing the specific text in functions_warning.php. Then you say that you could remove the rank title text from the templates. I do not use ranks, so I can't help with that.

Rgds

I did some tests with this, actually, I've been testing this since the day I saw this post of yours, and here are my findings:

1. There are huge problems in implementing something like this. First of all, the whole structure of the program has to be changed, so that the warning is not entered in the database before the editing of the message is done, because then if the moderator does a "Back" and hits the button again, you end up having more than one warnings, for the same thing.
2. Suppose we do that. Then we have other problems. As you know, there are two ways to notify a user for a Warning, either via PM or via Email. If someone is using only one of these methods, it's not a big issue to allow him to edit the message. What with those who are using both? Do we allow them to edit both the PM and the Email message? This gets kind of messy.
3. And of course, there is the inconsistency issues in the above case. One may enter different things in the PM and then different in the Email.

Overall, even though I've spend quite some time trying to make it work, (I have already a version 3.5.0 running on my board) the problems it creates are more than the benefits. Practically, users will have to edit almost all the php files that the hack changes, again, in order to make them compatible with the new structure of the hack files.

Sorry :(

Great hack! I have a few suggestions...

1. Is is possible to have the warned post stop sign graphic only viewable to staff?
2. Is it possible to actually have the specific offense next the warning graphic in the post as well? viewable my staff only
3. How about when the Automatic Warning is set off for a censored word, in the section where the staff can see the offensive post, can you have the bad word highlighted or Bold or something so it is easy to pick out quickly?

Thanks for listening to the suggestions, again, this is a great hack!

Yes, AdminCP - Warning System - Manage Warning Options, set "Who can view the Warning Points and bans?" to Mgm. This will also show the warning points etc, only to staff members. No separate control for the sign only. It is possible to add an Option which controls only the sign, and not both the sign and the warning points, but I do not see the point in that. If normal users are allowed to see the warning points, why not see the sign?


No, because the specific offence is not stored together with the post. In other words, a user may have several offences from different posts. These are kept in the warnings table. In the post table, I use only a flag to say that this particular post has been warned. In order to do that, I would have to use another field in the post table, to store the offense for that particular post. It's not undoable, but ......


Yes, this is something I thought about several times too. You mean in AdminCP or ModCP, when you click on the See Uncensored Text link, to show the censored text underlined or something. I have to find a way to do this, but my php knowledge isn't that good! Give me some time. Maybe in the next release, if I manage to do it.

Update: The censored text now appears italic and underline, but I won't release this version until later this weekend, I want to thoroughly test it first, because the last release got out with some ommissions.

I would like to request,

Admin/Mod comments (viewable by these groups only) - area to add note on
the user, that only staff can read, it is connected with the warning so each
time you warn the user they can have a different note.

If I remember right, this thing exist. Just set your "Use Warning Type Description, as moderator comment, in Post-Related warnings?" to "No" and every time a member of your staff warns someone, he will be able to add a note/comment.

Am I wrong in saying this: If I wanted them to have 3 temporary bans and the fourth being the perminant would we set it to (Number of Bans thingy) 4 or would that make it the fifth being permant or 3 with four being perminant? As I would want it to be the fourth time.

For a member to be permanently banned on his fourth ban, you set that number to 3.

However, I just noticed that I have associated that option, with the "Incremental Banning Periods", in other words, it works only if Incremental Banning Periods is set to "Yes", i.e. first time your member is ban, he will be banned for the specified Ban Duration, second time, he will be banned for Ban Duration x 2, etc. As I am looking at it now, there is no reason for these two to be associated. The Incremental Banning Periods can be totally independent than the Number of Bans Before being Permanently Banned.

Maybe I'll change that in the next release.

OK Thanks you. I haven't added this yet but It will be added very very soon... Waiting for Myth to add the PHP files and I'll do the rest. Just need to talk to him over AIM again.

Thanks again. Waiting for Myth..yes.

I just re-read your post and noticed that you are asking for something different. You were not talking about the note send to the warned member, but a note for the staff to see. Hmm interesting idea, but right now, I have my hands full trying to port this hack to 3.5, even though I am not sure if it's worth the trouble, I have to do it, since I know that a lot of people will update their vB. Unfortunatelly, vB didn't make this migration easy for us, so it will take me quite some time before the 3.5 version is ready and until then, I can't afford to spend more time on the old version.

I'll keep your request in mind though.

Of course... I only just got FTP access. and it's gone in 19 days (Trial Version)

I suggest that, Mod can get warning if there are many reports from users

Sorry, no more development for vBulletin version 3.5.xx