[intellected]

Originally posted by FireFly
Joins are heavy on the database when they are done on large tables... post and user are 2 of the biggest tables in vB, so it should make things slower.

Adding a hellban flag to the post table would be ok, but bear in mind that even if you take a user out of that usergroup his older posts will still remain hidden.

Oh yes - I guess that makes sense. And so I have learned another thing! leased:

As for the remain-hidden issue, the only solution I can think of is to add a little admin interface for it, but it seems overkill, as this is pretty much a last-resort-ban.