Banning carefully

[jasonw]

Hi all,

Admin have gave us Moderators / AE the power to ban members, just a quick reminder that we should do so carefully. This means that we should double check the member we are about to ban is guilty, before adding him/ her to the list.

Not saying anyone is doing anything wrong here, just a quick reminder to prevent unhappy faces ;)

Jason

[guilder1st]

How do you ban members?
For example this member: shocredor
Guilty of spamming in Russian and posting a link to a pornographic website on his profile.

I don't think I have the power to ban anyone, unless I am overlooking the option.

[peanut1234]

yes, i was wondering the same thing.

Peanut1234

[jasonw]

The "banning" option is under the "Moderator Control Pannel" however it may be the case that admin has not given everyone the power to ban.

Regards,
Jason

[guilder1st]

I will ask adm if I can have the power to ban also. Today was not a good day spam wise. And deleting 30+ posts of spam while I could have just banned the member when it was happening would have made it a lot easier.

[jasonw]

I will ask adm if I can have the power to ban also. Today was not a good day spam wise. And deleting 30+ posts of spam while I could have just banned the member when it was happening would have made it a lot easier.

Yes guilder1st, it is very annoying when you kee deleting spams whilst the spammer keeps posting new ones :neutral:

Anyways, you are one of the very hard-working members on the fanmail.biz in terms of banning spammers, ask admin and there should be no reason that you cannot have the power to ban {thumb2}

Jason

[des liner]

I also dont have the power to ban. With a these spammers posts ive been deleting, it would be much easier just to ban them rather that wasting so much time deleting their posts, for them to post more!!

Des

[Shambler]

I will ask adm if I can have the power to ban also. Today was not a good day spam wise. And deleting 30+ posts of spam while I could have just banned the member when it was happening would have made it a lot easier.

The thing with banning a user is that it does not automatically delete their posts - so you would still have to 'clean up their mess' after banning. It would be nice to see more mods who are able to ban, but right now I think it's pretty futile because admin just undoes all our hard work anyway

[guilder1st]

I will ask adm if I can have the power to ban also. Today was not a good day spam wise. And deleting 30+ posts of spam while I could have just banned the member when it was happening would have made it a lot easier.

Yes guilder1st, it is very annoying when you kee deleting spams whilst the spammer keeps posting new ones :neutral:

Anyways, you are one of the very hard-working members on the fanmail.biz in terms of banning spammers, ask admin and there should be no reason that you cannot have the power to ban {thumb2}

Jason

Guess he doesn't feel the same way. This is what he messaged back.

Hi guilder1st

If someone spam your forum please PM me, i will delete his account.

Fanmail

Honestly I will no longer be putting in time to keep the board clean. (like yesterday taking more than 30 minutes out of my day). I am an AE not a mod. I was just trying to help out, but at this point it seems futile.

@ Shambler Yes you still need to delete the messages, but like yesterday I was deleting them as he was posting them. If I could have banned him right away I wouldn't have had to delete 25+ messages.