Feature Suggestions

Please use this thread, if you want to suggest a new feature or something that would improve AWS.

Please do not use this thread to request code modifications, for your particular needs, this is to be used, for general feature suggestions, things that would apply to anyone's forum site.

Tnx and rgds

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John

[SRuvbnhad]

Very similar to the current system if not the exact same except looking at the UserID it looks at the IP address(es) stored. Of course an option to chose either UserID or IP ban would be helpful too. Hopefully that makes sense.

[sv1cec]

OK, let's try and put that in words:

I add an option in AWS Warning Options saying something "When a user gets banned, do you want to ban his IP Address as well?" Yes/No.

From what I see until now, vB stores only one IP address per member.

If an admin has that Option set to Yes, whenever a member gets banned, either for the ban duration, or for ever, his IP gets added in the banned IP list, as well as his user name in the banned users list. If this is a temporary ban, when the user gets unbanned, then his IP address is removed for the banned IP list, if he is permanently banned, the IP stays there for ever. Would that be what you want?

Rgds

[kiwibunny]

Hi John, the AWS works great, I cannot thank you enough for it.

I ran a search and I didn't find anything about this so I'm suggesting an option under the "Viewing Options" in AdminCP where you can enable or disable the publicity of each warning log of a member.

The "View ______'s Warnings" only is allowed to moderators and admins right now so there could be an option to enable it so that it's public for everyone to see.

I run a forum that runs RPG item auctions for items, so I would like all my members to see the reasons why the person is a bad trader. Thanks for your great work and I really hope this suggestion is brought through.

[sv1cec]

Well, that's easy to do yourself, just edit functions_showthread.php and find:

PHP Code:

            if ($postadmin!=1 AND $postmod!=1 AND $postsmod!=1 AND ($useradmin==1 OR $usersmod==1 OR $usermod==1))
            {
                $showviewwarnlink=1;
            } 


Replace that with:

PHP Code:

                $showviewwarnlink=1; 


Now, the View XYZ's warnings will be always visible. However, that might be an overkill, since the common users will be able to see all the warnings a user has, even those not related to trading.

By the way, what's RPG (I assume you do not mean the anicent IBM programming language)

Rgds

[SkyShadow]

Hello,

I'm a german user of your script. First of all thank you for this great support.
Could you release a "phrased" version of your hack?
The translation would be even easier for me...

Thanks!

[sv1cec]

I understand and you are not the only one who had suggested this. But I have started doing this twice, and I give up. I just do not have the patience to do this.

Maybe some day.

[SkyShadow]

Please try it again.

I'll translate it to German for my lifetime, I promise

[sv1cec]

Can't promise that. Too many things to do and too little time. However, if someone is interested in doing this, I would appreciate it.

Rgds

[PamelaE]

Im not sure if this has already been suggested, but if not here we go.

The forums all have an Alert system, whereby users can alert mods to posts.

So:

Alert comes in from user

Moderator receives Alert and reviews post

Moderator can choose action alert : send warning to post creator, ban creator etc
At the same time moderator can send a message to the person who raised the alert.
This response can be free text or chosen from a drop down.

I find that I have to private message a user to tell them we have dealt with their complaint. It would be great if we could respond to them at the same time we deal with the culprit.

[sv1cec]

I understand the usefulness, however I am not sure how it can be implemented. The moment the moderator reviews the offending post, he is no longer "in touch" with the member who send in the complain. I mean, in the standard procedure, all the reporting does, is to create an e-mail which is send to the moderators about the specific post. The moderator visits the forums, to check the post and does whatever he has to do, as far as the original poster is concerned, but there is nothing in vB connecting that post to the person who complained (at least I didn't find anything).

The only way something like that could be done (and I am talking off the top of my head now), is if you have installed Xenon's hack, which creates a new thread in a specified forum, every time someone reports a post to the moderators. What could be done in this case, is to add a button somewhere, with a predefined response which will be send to the user who reported the post. But then we are opening up other issues, such as "how would a moderator know, if another moderator has already answered this complain and clicked on the button?" etc. It can be done, by changing the thread's contents, but is this what you had initially in mind? As I said, I can't see how it can be done without Xenon's hack.

Rgds