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Originally Posted by Bolas

Hi,

your hack is great, congratulations.
I find myself in a situation where interactions between many moderators (people I trust) may sometimes be difficult to manage: coalitions to ban a user from the whole board may be unpleasant moments in the community. At the moment your hack cannot be used for every single forum. If it could, we may havea system by which ban from every single forum may be proposed by the regular users of that particular forum.
Would it be a long and difficult job to add such a feature into next release?
Again congratulation.

It's not very difficult to do what you want, AWS is not very far from what you are asking, the main differences are:

- everybody can vote against everybody. This can be considered the same as everybody being capable of issuing warnings.
- in which case, obviously the warning points required for a ban should be much higher.

So, in reality, with some changes at who can vote (warn), some adjustements of the existing parameters and some additional parameters (like for example how many times a member can warn another member), a system like the one you describe is possible.

Or, you can add another level above the whole hack, where users are really voting for a particular warning which the admins have decided to issue against a particular member, and the results of these votes decide if the warning is issued or not. This is getting too "democratic" for my taste, and too much democracy easily leads to anarchy.

I am not sure if the above make sense, too late in the evening and too many things in my mind, so sorry if they sound like a drunk man's words (I swear, no drinks).

Rgds