[beano33]

Originally Posted by MartynJ

Can you tell me the exact steps you went through to make this possible? Each time I try to do this I make the forum etc, and when I ban someone they get the no permission screen, even though the permissions are set. Does this apply to temp bans, or people I've specifically moved to the banned usergroup? The reason I'm asking is that mods can't specifically ban people, they can only temp ban them

Banned users all go into the same usergroup, "Banned by Moderators" so it applies to all bans (temp or perm). Here's the way I did it:

1) Setup new forum with No Parent, named it Village of the Banned and stuck it on the bottom of my board.

2) Under Forums & Moderators click on Forum Permissions, find your ban forum and click Deny All. Then add permissions for the specific usergroups you want to be able to use the forum and set their privileges however you prefer.

That's all there is to it. I'm guessing yours isn't working right because you made it a subforum. If you make it a subforum you also have to add permissions for the banned usergroup to it's parent forum.