Error message text too harsh?

[sparksromeo]

Whenever a person clicks to follow a link on my site and is not signed in or registered he gets this error message "

vBulletin Message
You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.
Date the ban will be lifted: Never"

How can I change the text to be more friendly so it will not discourage the viewer?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[ozzy47]

That message should only come up if the person browsing is on the banned group. Guests should not be seeing that.

[sparksromeo]

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); has no effect. If I could impose, try to click on "Reply with quotes" on this link. HERE

[ozzy47]

Maybe something in htaccess, or vbseo?

Your link reply with quotes looks like this:

http://www.treasurecoastaviation.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1928

When it should look like this:

http://www.treasurecoastaviation.com/forums/newreply.php?&do=newreply&p=1928

Yours has the extra in it

[Max Taxable]

But on another thread, the link for reply looks like this, no extra ampersand:

http://www.treasurecoastaviation.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1951

In the source code, it looks like it is pulling up the right error class, but I suspect that phrase may have been changed at some point?

<div class="standard_error">
	<h2 class="blockhead">vBulletin Message</h2>
	
		<div class="blockbody formcontrols">
			<div class="blockrow restore"><p>You have been banned for the following reason:<br />
No reason was specified.</p>

<p>Date the ban will be lifted: Never</p></div>
		</div>
	
</div>

Plus, I am not seeing the extra ampersand on the thread the OP linked us to:

http://www.treasurecoastaviation.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1926

EDIT: Never mind Ozzy - you are saying it SHOULD have the ampersand. Is that right? I pasted the one you said it should look like into my addressbar, and still got the "You have been banned" error message.

[sparksromeo]

(Using 4.2.2) I have no one banned. A unregistered browser can view everything but if he tries to reply to a posting without signing in he gets the harsh error message.

[ozzy47]

Yeah that should be the right class.

[ozzy47]

No there is something else going on in your site, no need to edit code. Have you added anything to your htaccess file?

[Max Taxable]

I don't think the ampersand makes any difference, like i said I pasted the one Ozzy said it should be, and still got same error.

[ozzy47]

Actually I see some of the code has been hidden in my other reply, but no matter, it still don't work either way.