Forum admins - how do you deal with idioting/abusive members?

[Surtain23]

Originally Posted by OGF

I really need some help/advise.

I've got a real problem with people being abusive on my forums. I ban them, and they re-register under a different name and email to start all over again. It's keeping us busy for sure.

The only permanent solutions I see are to prevent users from using free email services (hotmail, aol, yahoo) to register, hand verifying each member, or blocking popular ISPs like AOL.

What do you people do to deal with these yahoos?

Thanks for your opinions.

I use a 3 strike system. If they break the rules once (As long as it it isn't really bad) I just add a warning to there account, and send them a PM explaining why and telling them to please stop, ect. If you do it again, I warn them once again, give them a temporary ban (Usally around 4-6 days depending on how bad what they did was), send them a email like the PM I sent eariler. Then, If they do something AGAIN, I slap them with a perm ban.

I use the great Trap Banned Members: They can not logout hack when I ban them so they cannot log out (Unless they delete there cookies). If they sign up on another name and posting, I usally IP ban them OR use the Miserable Users for vB3 hack.

Although, I've only had to ban 3 members on my site before. I hope I helped. :nervous: