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

[Bolas]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

I like this idea. Let me work on it. Depending on the twins schedule (if they are taken to their grandmother this weekend), I might come up with something.

One question, when you are talking about access, are you refering to reading as well as posting, or posting only? And please elaborate when you refer to "access masks".

Imagine that you create some groups called first time kicked,second time kicked,recidive and stupid, now you die.
With a quick wizard you can set which forum are linked to that groups.
In back end the wizard automatically set forum permissions (no access, no post, no nothing... = "ban from a forum") for that groups about the forumid setted during wizard setup.

Ok, now the user "Caius" get an AWS ban for the first time:
AWS system set his group as first time kicked (just for the time of the AWS ban) and then Caius can't access|write|read to the list of forum linked to that group.

Ok, after a month Caius is AWS-banned for the second time. Then AWS set his group as second time kicked..

etc.. etc..

The concept is to deny access to a list of important forum from recidive banned people..

[Revan]

I would like to suggest you take advantage of the Updated Template system in vB.
Since your installer already imports templates into the Master Style, it is simply a matter of discovering the time() when you alter a template in your .xml file, then update the date area of the <template>.
This way, it automatically replaces unmodified templates, and gives us an option to revert the custom ones

[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.

[sv1cec]

At the moment, there are three such additional pains, signature cut-off, avatar cut-off and PM cut-off. TonaInu has just send me the code to add a forth, a flood checking system, which does not allow a user to post a new thread or a new post, soon after his previous one.

One more thing, when you are reverting to the old, manual banning way, do not do it via vB, do it via the AWS, in that way, the system still has control over what's going on.

If you have any ideas on what more you would like to see implemented on the "take away their toys" side, please let me know.

[Ski-Whiz]

Is it possible to get the URL clickable in the thread it creates in the forum I have assigned to post my mods' warnings?? If other mods want to see where the thread was that was warned, they have to click and drag the URL, and copy/paste it..

That's not a biggie, just would be nice if it could post a clickable link in the thread it creates in the "warning" forum.

They are clickable in the PM and email, just not the thread it creates..

You are doing great with this!! This is probably my favorite hack out there!

[sv1cec]

The thread it creates in the specified forum, is the same text it is in the PM it sends, and as I told you, the link IS clickable. In the thread it creates, there is a phrase which says "This Post" or something similar. If you click on that one, it will show you the thread that was warned, I think it shows it in a new window. Maybe this is your problem??

The link is clickable, I verified that this morning.

[j_86]

Many forums have a problem with people breaking signature rules. So to be able to give them warning points that always meet the thresold for the signature-cutoff can be a good idea to temporarly disable the user's signature.

However, sometimes administrators dont want to disable their signature when giving other warning types and points.

How about;

1) Have the signature-disabled threshold level as it is now
2) Also include the option when adding a warning type to "Kill Signature" or "Kill Avatar" ("with this warning") - and when this specific warning matures, they can use the signature again

[sv1cec]

The change you are asking means adding another column in the warning types table and then checking if the user has received that particular warning. However, this is a no ending issue, since we need another option for the avatar, another for the PM system, another for .... I do not know, if it is worth it.

You can do the same thing today, if you play a bit with your warning points and the signature threshold.

Or maybe it is worth doing it. If I get enough requests, I'll consider it.

[SRuvbnhad]

I don't know if this is already a feature, has been suggested, or not but banning by IP address would be helpful. Some people try to get around a temp- or perma- ban by creating a new account. If they are banned by IP address that would solve that problem.

I realize that may cause a problem for some users with dynamic ip addresses but that is something I would rather worry about on an administrative level. Perhaps a way for a user the suspects an error has occurred to send an email to administration asking them to look into the situation. If it's something that needs to be undone, then so be it.

[sv1cec]

OK, I have a question for you: How do you see this being implemented? There are several ways to do it. For example:

Do you want every permanent ban that occurs, due to the accumulation of warning points, to result in an IP ban as well?

Or when a user is temporarily being banned, to also ban his IP address? And then when he is unbanned, to unban his IP as well?

Rgds