Banning Problems
 

Hi All,

I was wondering if I could please get some help with two issues:

1) Permanently banning a deranged member who keeps coming back under different IP addresses and emails. (And he posts the same messages on threads over and over)

2)For some reason when a regular member's account expires, (we are integrated with aMember), they get banned from the VBulletin for no reason. Is there a way to change that to 'expired'?

Thanks in advance.

1. No way to stop this. That's the nature of the internet.
2. What plugin do you use for this? I assume a setting somewhere is set to move users to the banned usergroup.

Thanks for replying.

I am wondering if there is a 'banned user cannot logout' hack for 4.2...or maybe a way to make it so that when the troll comes back, I can adjust it so only he can see his posts. It is literally one extremely deranged person.

Our site is housed through aMember with a vbulletin plugin to integrate it to VB. All members sign up through aMember.

:up: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=318588

:)

Thanks so much. This looks promising. Does this mean that only they can see their post and no one else can?

When you have verified it is him, put that account on global ignore.That hack is useless, because if you don't make the unregistered/not logged in usergroup exempt, you will kill your google rankings. And when you leave it exempt, he can then just log out and still read everything.

Ok thank you. May I asked how to put someone on 'global ignore'? Again, thanks for all your help everyone.

oh think I found it..

Admin CP -> Settings -> Options -> User Banning Options -> Global Ignore

Also the "One touch ban and clean" from postbit hack, might be handy for you. It cleans all board posts, blog posts, PMs and VMs with one click and has settings to protect regular users from the tool by either post count or time as member.

awesome! thanks