User Thread Banning (Includes Time Banning Feature)
 

User Thread Banning (Includes Time Banning Feature)
By Shaolyen
email: John@eovie.com
msn: John@eovie.com

Brief intro:
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This hack enables mods, supermods and administrators to ban
users from viewing OR just replying to specific threads. It also
allows users to be banned from threads for specified amount of
time. After this time has expired, they will gain access/be able
to post again.

It adds a small link underneath the "Posts: #" in the postbit
template. Providing the user who posted did not start the thread,
a "[Thread Ban This User]" link will appear. (Only to mods, super
mods and admins.) For users who are already banned from a thread,
an "[Unban This User]" link will appear.

Forum leaders cannot be banned from threads. (The link will not
appear in their posts.)

When a forum leader clicks on the "[Thread Ban This User]" link,
they are taken to another page where they can:

a) choose whether the user can read the thread, or just not reply to it.
b) choose the length of the user's ban (in days).
c) type in a reason for the user's thread ban. This is displayed
when the user tried to access or reply to the thread.

When a user tries to access a thread or reply to one when banned,
the error message will provide a link to send a PM to the
moderator who banned them. This is something that some people
might not like - but if they're too scared to own up and explain
why they banned the user from the thread in the first place,
maybe they shouldn't be moderating! (If it really bothers some
people, I can provide them with the lines of code they need to
find and delete.)

A new page in the AdminCP will allow the admin to check all of
the current bans, as well as view archived ones. The reason for
the ban will be displayed in the Admin CP when the cursor passes
over the "Reason" link.

Enjoy. :)

Screenshots:

Awesome hack John! Such a brilliant idea :)

- miSt

Thanks Mist -

Just a quick note, this has been tested on vB 2.3.0 only as of yet.

Very cool hack...thanks John!! :)

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48773" target="_blank">https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...threadid=48773</a>

I requested it there a long time ago, MUG posted a version of it, but it didn't have the features which Dan_UPC was going to add into it, however he's just gone somewhere now...

So i'm glad someone has released it finally, well done John.

Wow, this was requested a while ago (By N9ne :)). I saw it but never really thought it would be necessary. It does look cool though, and since seeing his request, there have been a few times that I came back here to see if anyone had released it because I needed it at the time. Right now I have all my "problems" straightened out though, but rest assured next time someone needs to be banned from a specific thread, I'll install this. Just have some others that I have to get to first.

Do you know how many queries (if any) this adds to non-thread banned users? Any? Does it add any to anyone? Just wondering.

lol, people always ask about extra queries, and I wonder how many people have actually had a problem with too many queries actually slowing down their board. (Now I've said that, I'm sure people will start giving me examples!)

As far as I can remember (I wrote this hack a week or two ago), it adds 1 query to showthread.php and one to forumdisplay.php - if any at all.

Show me a board with the itemshop hack and I'll show you a depressed server. :)

Hmm... I know it can be done fairly easily without any queries... Well, that is without the time ban added to it, at least.

Nice job. :)

The actual ban is query free.

The query is used to check whether the user's time ban is over or not.