Moderators Functions - New Thread on User Banning by BOP5

The purpose of this mod is to create a new thread in a forum you specify whenever any user is banned.

NEW In Version 1.2 - Set a minimum post count for a user before a "new thread" is created on their banning- this way you don't bother making threads for spammers with just a handful of posts.

New in Version 1.3 - Very minor optimization of code- upgrade optional.

New in 1.4 - {USERID} is now a usable variable in the Ban Reason. Allows for links to the banned user's profile.

The title and message posted is easily customized, as is the username of the thread starter.

This has been tested on vBulletin 3.8.6 and 4.0.8 and should work on all versions of 3.8.x/4.0.x/4.1.x. It may work on earlier versions too.

Read the info txt file in the .zip for full instructions.

See the screenshots for more details.

Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.

English - Download Zip File
Arabic - Download xml File (Translated by Dr. osamA):up:

[eTiKeT?]

Nice idea, thank you
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I've added the patch Turkish

[Barcham]

Originally Posted by g33k4u

Can you make all posts be added to one single thread ? ( specified previously by admin ) instead of making a new thread each time

This way, the thread can be seen in public, and members will know why members are being banned, and they will make sure to avoid that

I love the idea of your mod, but I won't install it as it will be some kinda a spamming mod ( by staff ) in huge forums that got like 15-20 members banned each day

Please update me on this

Thanks

Any news of an update for this? If it would create only one thread with each banning or suspension being added to the thread I can see it being very useful and I'd install it in an instant. One thread per ban is just too much to deal with.

[cihadehli]

Originally Posted by eTiKeT?

Nice idea, thank you
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I've added the patch Turkish

thank you eTİKeT hocam..

[furnival]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Yours is the first report I ever had of a flaw with this system.

Hi Birdofprey5, thank you for this fantastic mod. It has stopped working for me on VB 4.2.5. I get a message that a new thread cannot be created, after I ban a user in /admincp/. Any ideas how to fix this please?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by furnival

Hi Birdofprey5, thank you for this fantastic mod. It has stopped working for me on VB 4.2.5. I get a message that a new thread cannot be created, after I ban a user in /admincp/. Any ideas how to fix this please?

Did anything change between the time it last worked and the time you noticed it stopped working? VB Version? PHP version? Server change? Added or removed new forums or administrators?

Without much to go on or the exact error message I would suggest you verify the user who makes the post still have permission to post in the forum selected for the post to be made in, and that that forum is open to new posts.

[furnival]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Did anything change between the time it last worked and the time you noticed it stopped working? VB Version? PHP version? Server change? Added or removed new forums or administrators?

Thank you for your reply! I really appreciate it.

No changes to users. The admin user is the one doing the banning and no permissions have changed so I don't think it is related to permissions. Nothing shows up in the PHP error logs.

I did upgrade to PHP 7.1 and moved servers around the time this plugin stopped working, so those might be the factors. I am on VB 4.2.5. Not sure how to resolve this. I get a message when I try to ban a user, in white text at the top of the admincp screen, "Error creating new thread!". Any ideas where to look to find the source of the error, please?