Vote to Ban

[dotagious]

The idea came from AOL Instant Messengers warn system. The hack would add a button called “warn” or something similar, which would be added to the posbit or profile template.

Any member can click the button, and invoke a form similar to the “report post to a moderator feature”. The form would allow the member to enter a reason, and once submitted, would private message and/or email the member a warning with the reason.

Each member has the ability to warn a particular member once, similar to voting on a poll one time. Once a member reaches x-amount of warnings, they are automatically banned or suspended pending ban authorization from the administrator.

[altmac]

Awesome idea, I would love a hack like this.

[Erwin]

There IS a hack like this called Warning - you can set the number of warnings eg. 4 - then the member is automatically banned.

Just do a search in Full Releases. I have had this installed for a while now (only recently removed it).

[Dean C]

/me can't find it

[dotagious]

I can't seem to find it either.

[dotagious]

The closest thing I found was this and it's not the same as my request. Other threads about a warning system are also requests, but not hack releases.

[Erwin]

Originally posted by Avenger
The closest thing I found was this and it's not the same as my request. Other threads about a warning system are also requests, but not hack releases.

That is it.

Look at this part of his code:

$ban = 1; // 0 = Never ban nomatter what; 1 = Ban after $numwarn has been passed
$numwarn = 3; // Number of warnings till user gets banned
$bannedgrp = 13; // Group id for banned users

You can set the number of warnings before the person gets banned. You need to modify the code a bit since it's messy (I modified it and integrated it into my suspension/ banning system).

[dotagious]

How hard would it be to make it so a regular user can warn by clicking on a link within the postbit? That hack has it in the admincp for use by the admin only.

[dotagious]

It would also need a check added to allow a user to warn another particular user one time only. Otherwise, the system would be abused like hell.

[g-force2k2]

still Avenger it would be abuse like hell either way ;p cause if all the members gang up on a member goodbye... so im not really a fan of it right this moment sorry ;\

g-force2k2