Before the recent push, I was able to add a brand new yuku ID to my member list and then ban that member. Why can't I do that anymore??? 
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Banning Stalkers
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favafoyo |
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Posts: 428 3-Aug-07 9:58 AM Begging for 2 S's
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try looking under where it says "invite", smokie.
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SmokieTopaz |
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Posts: 848 3-Aug-07 10:17 AM |
Thank you, favafoyo.
 It worked.  Your help was greatly appreciated. 
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Same old Bob |
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Posts: 64 3-Aug-07 10:30 AM Mr Insanitivity
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so we can still manually add members?
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Chris |
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Posts: 2255 3-Aug-07 10:48 AM Underwearer |
When you invite someone all you can do is set up their security permissions for forums, or ban them. It doesn't actually make them a full member, they just
get a PM saying they've been invited. Only posting on the board will make them a member.
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Posts: 64 3-Aug-07 12:43 PM Mr Insanitivity
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Thanks
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alison |
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Posts: 9389 3-Aug-07 2:28 PM |
seems a bit weird to invite someone and ban them...
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SmokieTopaz |
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Posts: 848 3-Aug-07 3:00 PM |
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TattoodMan |
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Posts: 3 3-Aug-07 3:46 PM |
I always wondered why people hate lurkers? They lurk they look and if they enjoy what they see they may become members. I seen it happen twice so far!
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Posts: 1775 3-Aug-07 6:05 PM The puck stops here
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A lot has to do with the nature of a board on whether lurkers are good or bad. Some boards are more geared toward getting information out to others. My board
is a hockey board and while I prefer that people post and contribute content, I know that we have quite a few people who are there to keep up with how their
son/brother/friend and his team are doing.
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Posts: 64 4-Aug-07 6:36 AM Mr Insanitivity
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seems a bit weird to invite someone and ban them...I would add names to the ban list on ez to prevent known morons from even getting one nasty post in.If using invite is the only way to add non members to the ban list, then it makes sense. I always wondered why people hate lurkers? They lurk they look and if they enjoy what they see they may become members. I seen it happen twice so far!I agree for the most part, but there are some lurkers with malicious intentions.On ez gold communites it was a nasty trick of competiting communites to go pile into your board and drive your gold cost up.Others would harvest email addresses from profiles or harass members in PMs.Some steal pictures and repost elsewhere stealing bandwidth in the process the list goes on and on. |
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Ben |
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Posts: 1 4-Aug-07 7:03 AM Volkswagen Beetle |
Same old Bob wrote: I hadn't heard about that before. All I noticed was when the renewal date approached, some boards actually closed in an effort to bring the price down!
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Same old Bob |
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Posts: 64 4-Aug-07 11:35 PM Mr Insanitivity
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Yes a lot did that too to lower cost, but if you weren't strict mba then you were subject to extra traffic.Thats how my board ended up strict mba for about
a year.There are other dirty tricks competitors would pull to drive you renewal cost up, I'm not going to mention them here but we picked up on them and
paid the jerks back with interest.
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alison |
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Posts: 9389 5-Aug-07 12:42 PM |
We'll look into adding a way of banning people without actually inviting them.
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SmokieTopaz |
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Posts: 848 5-Aug-07 8:05 PM |
What was wrong with your previous option where you simply added the people you intended to ban to your member list and then banned them? It made more sense
than inviting them to your board in order to ban them.
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Chris W962 |
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Hi Smokie,
It's called "inviting" because you use the invite feature to add someone, but the PM received is worded exactly the same as when you used to add members manually to your board. This is what a member used to get when they were manually added to a board You were given a membership on board name. The Administrator that changed the level was admin name, you can contact them by sending a private message And this is the message people receive when you use the invite feature. You were given a membership on board name.Well I'm not sure whether those messages are supposed to be the same or not, but currently they are:) |
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alison |
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Posts: 9389 6-Aug-07 12:11 AM |
The previous method would actually add the person to your memberlist, and we've put a stop to that to prevent people from just adding others whether they
wanted membership or not.
Now you have to be invited and then accept that invitation by posting to be an official member. Or of course, on an open board you just post and then you are a full member. But of course some people do have a valid need to ban certain usernames before they turn up. That is the admin's right to control their own community, no matter what the actual reason. And most people who have been banned from a community do not want to have that community listed in their membership list. Those PM messages are not clear - I am hoping to get them editable by the admin as well, but in the interim I'll see how we can reword them. |
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SmokieTopaz |
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Posts: 848 6-Aug-07 6:51 AM |
Thank you, Chris and Alison, for clarifying things for me.
 Yes, it is very important sometimes to ban somebody who never posted at your board. As long as we
can still do that, I am happy, regardless of how we are given the opportunity to do it. I really don't care if a bad person gets offended, but inviting
people to ban them sounded just too funny to me.
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GoldenGem |
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Posts: 142 6-Aug-07 6:54 AM Rare |
I hate to throw a dampener - but in my experience once they know where your board is if you ban them under one name they come back in another. Banning by IP
is no good either because you can blacklist a whole group of people by doing that.
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Same old Bob |
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Posts: 64 6-Aug-07 6:56 AM Mr Insanitivity
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Those PM messages are not clear - I am hoping to get them editable by the admin as well, but in the interim I'll see how we can reword them.you could do the banned message like this: "Congratulations moron, you've just been banned by (fill in the blank community) do not pass go, do not collect $200 have a nice day jerk."
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GoldenGem |
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Posts: 142 6-Aug-07 6:57 AM Rare |
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