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Originally Posted by mcyates

Its the Number Of Days Members Are Banned which is messing things up.

1st warning (4 points) issued on 01/01/01 (ends on 11/01/01)
2nd warning (2 points) issued on 07/01/01 (ends on 18/01/01)
3rd warning (6 points) issued on 09/01/01 (ends on 20/01/01)

The member will only be banned for 2 days (after he received the 3rd warning) untill the 1st warning has expired. Its better to remove the "Number Of Days Members Are Banned" and just let the warnings work on their own, like the above one did. If they go over the warning limit, then they just have to wait untill one of the warnings have expired which will make them unbanned.

Is there anyway I can disable the Number Of Days Members Are Banned on my forum?

It is a great hack btw i already banned someone lol!!

What you are asking is not the simplest thing to do, with just a parameter. It requires logic change, the unbanning method is now based on the standard algorithm provided by vB. If I were to implement your way, we had to have a different algorithm, which would check the warning points of the banned members versus the maximum number of points, and if below, it will unban them.

It's not a bad idea, but it is a totally different method of handling the problem.

Maybe in release 2.0, I 'll build in different scenarios, and let the admin select which one he/she likes to use. Until now, I have three in my mind, the existing one, another one where the warning points and the warnings of a banned member are deleted and yours. The second one can be easily implemented with a conditional and a Warning Option, in the code, as it is today. Yours needs more work, but hey if the twins allow me, I'll do it.

Rgds
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John