Ban individual user and/or users from sending pm, emails and and visitor messages
 

This mod will allow you to ban individual user and/or users from sending Personal Messages, Emails and Visitor Messages. It is faster and handier in my opinion than setting up a custom usergroup and disallow them to use pm''s, emails and vm''s.

Anyway, after installing the hack, go to Settings-Options-Private Messaging Options. There you can enable and disable the hack. You can also enter the id of the users that you want to prevent from sending Personal Messages, Emails and Visitor Messages.

Tagged for future use :)

Seems to be a nice easy method :)

How can we edit the message that is shown to the user?

Thanks :)

Open the pm_ban.xml file and find the following code:


And change:


{1} stands for the username.

Or search after phrase: "You are not allowed to send Private Messages."
And change it...

thanks to you both.

can this Mod be modified to include sending of emails too?

You are welcome.

I will look into it as soon as I will have some free time.

Great mod!

Suggestion - PM ban selection from user postbit?

By chance, does this work on 3.X? :)

The thing is that I don't use vb 3x and wouldn''t know if it work there or not. But tell you what, try to remove this line from the xml file and give it a go, but at your test forum. If it works then install it at your live forum.

I just included the mail option as well besides the pm''s.

thanks for the update ^^^

You are welcome.

does not work on my board :(

What version of vb do you have? Did you enable the settings accordingly after the installation?

Can it be expanded as banning a user from user profile visitor messaging?

Thanks a lot for this, now I can ban those pathetic forum advertisers from sending massive PMs now. XD

Thats i need too, send me please a message when you find any solution for

I will update the mod with the option for banning a user from the visitor message as well shortly.

Done. The option to add a ban for visitor messages is just added.

Edit: Does not work on 3.8

Working fine in vB 4.0.5 :D

if i disable the pm function for a user ,this case my self for a test
after the test i remove my id , the ban still holds ,
so its still not working good on my board ,to bad seems like a good mod

This is great but I only need for PMs ._.

can this mod be applied to guests as well ?

Can we get this on 3.8X ?

Regards
Mickie

Try to remove this code fromt he xml file and give it a go on a 3x8 forum. It should work.

Hopefully this works on 4.0.7! Will install it now and update this post.

Thanks for the great mod!

Nice one it works! Marked as Installed. Sometimes i think it's the smaller, more simple mods like these that are the most useful.

One suggestion is to make it an available option in the front end (just like how a lot of other admin settings are, eg. banning users) and additionally giving us the option of making it available for Moderators to make use of.

Thanks again

Okay, to my surprise i just received a PM from member i had banned! So i also banned a test account and tried to send a PM to myself and it got through! I also was able to sucessfully send a PM to a non-admin/mod.

Damn and i was so happy about this mod :(

Running vB4.0.7 if anyone can help.

This is a nice mod.

You might consider to add some clientscript (javascript, ajax) to permit a mod or admin to add a user to this ban list by clicking on their user name in their profile, or something similar.

It is to much work to open the AdminCP and cut-and-paste a single user id, don't you think? There are better ways to add the user id to the database.

Agreed!

Hey wat version are you running it on?

We are not running it yet, but plan to install if we don't have to login to the AdminCP to do the deed.

Ah okay. I PM'ed the developer about a week ago but no response so far. I hope this mod gets updated.

Thanks, very useful!

there is a way to have it in user panel unser admincp/modcp? I want that my mod and glob mod can edit and add user in that ban list

Very useful.

Working in 4.0.8

this is exactly what i have

Worked for me! (still using 4.0.6)