So we can ban ourselves now?

sierdzio · wrote on 23 Apr 2014, 12:13

Well, a bit of masochistic katharsis does not hurt, eh?

Sure looks like a bug.

Eddy · wrote on 23 Apr 2014, 16:06

Hi all,

Tero Kojo is investigating the banning features of devnet due to frequent spamming activities in the past month.

Normally this should be visible/accessible to moderators only.

@utcenter i will ban you as you were trying to do so... Just kidding ;-)

Eddy

Eddy · wrote on 23 Apr 2014, 16:25

status update:

I did a test with a new user i made myself and the banning works great already : the user is removed and all post made by the user also.

So we have some cool weaponry now against the spam hobbyist.

Thanks to Tero Kojo!

Please be patient about the ban link visibility. It shouldn't be there for all users.

sierdzio · wrote on 23 Apr 2014, 16:27

Nice, good to know. Manually removing all spam threads was mightily cumbersome and boring ;)

Eddy · wrote on 23 Apr 2014, 16:31

[quote author="sierdzio" date="1398270448"]Nice, good to know. Manually removing all spam threads was mightily cumbersome and boring ;)[/quote]

Yeah, and we are all here to have fun ;-)

utcenter · wrote on 23 Apr 2014, 17:17

[quote author="Eddy" date="1398269211"]
@utcenter i will ban you as you were trying to do so... Just kidding ;-)
[/quote]

I did not expect to get banned really, the odds of this feature being a bug and actually being functional in banning was estimated to be very slim. So I decided to click :)

Eddy · wrote on 23 Apr 2014, 17:21

@utcenter
Thanks for reporting and keeping an open eye on issues you see!

Luckily for you my intuition told me to use a new test user to ban ;-P

tekojo · wrote on 24 Apr 2014, 06:34

@utcenter yep, looks like you can see the link on your own posts. It's an unintentional side effect :)

The templates used here don't have a proper tag for identifying a moderator, so I used the tag for a person that can edit the post/reply. Which means that it shows up for the author as well.

Of course normal users can access the ban page, and there is a safety switch in place for moderators so they don't ban themselves. I'll try to wrap my head around the tags and code used to make the link disappear from your own posts.

Anyway having proper banning in place brings more power to the community.

Eddy · wrote on 24 Apr 2014, 07:12

Thanks again Tero

2+

utcenter · wrote on 4 Jun 2014, 11:24

BTW I still have a "ban" link under my profile pic, still not fixed?

tekojo · wrote on 4 Jun 2014, 11:27

No, harder to change that I thought :/
I'll probably have to figure out how to add it only to user groups, but that seems like a bowl of spaghetti to me.

Let's see if I have some time after the Contributors' Summit, that's eating my time right now :)