Banned member very poor feature!!

Wow... i just ban a spam member and im surprise to see that this feature is SO BASIC on dolphin... this is a very big problem...

What happen when you ban a member on the website??? its only refuse him to login??

And what about Hide it from the member list ? user still see it and can send message to him.. and dont know that this member is ban....

And what about his post... still showing... all his content should be banned too... this member should be completly erased from the server when he s ban... I know i can use the delete member feature.. thats what i did... dont have choice!

But as a veteran webmaster... one of the most important thing to know.. is to NEVER delete banned member from your database.. this could be useful later in other case.. or if the member create another account...

Also.. what about banned IP when you ban a member...

Seriously.. i was expected more from the 7.1 version... the banned function still too basic.. please boonex do something!

Hello,

Sorry for this one, but I would really like to recommend it against spam visitors. Although this is not really the thing that you want at this moment but since it could help you managed your spam visitors I would still like to tell you about it. I would recommend that you would use cloudflare.com services. You can try their free service first if you have doubts and hopefully it would help your site in more ways than one. 

did see this page?

/administration/ip_blacklist.php?mode=settings

set to "1" for total block

cloudflare works well too.. but causes some video issues for some.

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http://www.boonex.com/forums/topic/CloudFlare-.htm

thx a lot newton :)

and what about the problem of the banned member still be visible to other user with no notice that their banned... so member will send message to a GHOST?

 The proper procedure to ban members,

in admin>members

select the member to ban, but "deactivate" the member first, then select again then "ban" them.

yes i know that... but desactivate is for unactive member.. member that the admin dont confirm membership...

so if i put a banned member into that class... on my main stats panel it will be show into the unconfirmed member... so do you imagine when i will have to manage 5000 members... how to know all the time wich from the unconfirmed is banned member and wich one is the simply unconfirmed... this is a mess... did you try ANY other social network script? the ban function is so better and less complicated.. Ban is a Ban and the script normally do everything needed to ban and block the user without the admin to modify a lot of setting for the member...

I still think that the ban function of dolphin need a lot of improvement:

1. Ban ip automaticly (if selected option in setting)

2. Remove all user post and content (if selected in setting)

3. Check for double account

4. Special ban for selected module ( user can login but cant anymore use chat, mail, blog and forums... by example)

5. Warn system, before ban user can be warn by admin or moderator... after x number of warn he get a auto ban

6. Possibility to see all the private chat and message that a banned user send to other member

7. Enter the reason why the member is banned

8. Banned member are publicly showed on banned list member section that allow other member to see banned member list and why they are banned

9. Banned member can send a message to admin as a demand to be debanned... like a way to send to admin apologise

10. Set ban duration.. forever or for a month

These feature are not science fiction! I already got it into another social network script that i use for my torrent tracker website.. so this post i think boonex should take in consideration

Ban is when you want to temporary ban the users from using the site; for a few days or a week, whatever.  The feature you want to use is called deleting the user.

well its YOUR opinion... but in my book... when a country BAN a video game or a movie... it,s not only for a month

That is a different form of banning LOL; and it usually results in increase sales.  Have a poor selling book, just get it banned LOL.

 why you say a month?

under the members IP tracking system, you take their IP and ban it. You might know all this..hope I'm not wasting time here.

There is a drop down calendar system to set the time of the ban. Ban them for couple year or 20..

¸I know that... i just reply to the comment of geek_girl

Anyway all the suggestion i mention before still wanted from me and certainly many other dolphin user...

its not only a question of IP ban.. but all the other way more secure to ban a member...

yes sir!

The ban feature is when you have a member that has been naughty; so you ban her/him for a period of time as punishment for their naughtiness.  Then you let them back in and tell them to play nice.  When you want to completely erase someone, then you do as you did and delete their account.  End of story.

Yes that probably why this mod exist in the market....your story is SO right

http://www.boonex.com/m/reputation-warnings-infractions

these feature should not be as a paid addon but already include in dolphin

IMO banning an IP is only a good idea if an IP is known to be in fixed use and behaving badly because 90% of internet users do not have a fixed IP. Banning an IP address which is dynamically assigned by an isp will only effect the original trouble maker for 24 hours, or until they reboot their router, but will block the next person assigned that IP for no good reason. Most spambots will come from fixed ips but that won't necessarily always be the case and you wouldn't want the script doing this without your specific input because the ban funtion is not only for spambots.

The same goes for deleting content on ban. I wouldn't want to have that automatically happening. If I ban a prolific user I could end up with thousands of forum threads and other content that would become incoherent nonsense.

No thanks. I'd like to have control please.