Interesting question - how to drive away a member?
 

On my forum I have one member who posts all the time who just bugs the heck out of me. He is well liked by a great number of users, however, albeit for reasons that frustrate the heck out of me. He doesn't do anything that gives me the leeway to ban him yet, however. Anyone have any thoughts on how I could get him to move along? Creative ideas are encouraged!

Make the board strict as hell!

BTW, wuss' your board link?

Throw the metaphorical book at him when he breaks a minor rule.

hmmm ... how about putting him on ignore? Hehehe ;)

Make him look bad. You have power, do it. :p

just ban him anyways... dont give a reason... you dont need to your an admin!

It's your site. :) You pay the bills. So you make the rules.

lol guys :) I am sure you understand the politics that such an issue can be sometimes, including one of my 5 moderators (I am the only admin) is a great buddy of his. I can't just ban him because I would catch incredible flak from a great number of users. And I already tightened down the rules so much so that I have curtailed his activities as much as I can reasonably do so. :rolleyes:

If I can't come up with an intriguing social engineering plan I'd like to come up with a little hack to single out this user (maybe his sympathetic mod too ;) ) that would give him server errors much like the Hellban (505 errors every third page the user visits). I thought the hellban idea was interesting, but it had way too many bugs to fool with.

This should be an interesting exercise in pairing social engineering with hacking - put those thinking caps on! :cool:

Thanks guys :)

i think the truth is always the best way.
just tell him, that he annoys you, and it's your board.
so he should stop it, and if he won't he would be banned.
And if his mod friend say anything against tell him he can go the same way if he likes ;)

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