[beano33]

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Hello,

Nice to see you're working on it sv1cec. I'm still using Zero Tolerance 1.5 hack (with some minor modifications), but will give this a look soon.

We were using Ikonboard before and we've made some midifications to that one too. Here are some suggestions for options:

-Increase posting flood with warningpoints. 1 warningpoint gives 1^0 30 seconds extra, 2 gives 2^2 *30 etc. My experience is that this is quite effective (a warned user is often in a balistic mood, that's fine and understandable, but there are limits to this. Things quickly aggrevate more than good for anyone).
-Increase searchflood.
-Increase PM flood.
-Remove post edit function (effective for backpeddling trolls stirring the pot).
-Remove poll creation.
-Prevent editing signature.
-Block editing usertitle.

You could say: take away a kids toy (so he can't throw it into someones face) until he has calmed down.

I like the idea of tying points into board functionality. I'm very happy with this hack and it's made things a lot easier, but it's also created a new group of users who try to work the system. They cause enough trouble to get just under the points limit where they'd get banned, and wait for points to expire before causing more trouble. Of course we can resort to the old 'we reserve the right to ban any user at any time' routine for those kinds of offenders and they're indignant about being persecuted. It would be nice if the points brought a little pain.