Better ban features.

JonnyBlack

OR! Shadow bans

Pilvinen

I have no idea what that means but I want that.

JonnyBlack

oh, sorry

A shadow ban is when the banned user can still access and post but nobody else can see any of it and they just stop coming around. It avoids that anger instantaneous sense of rejection for a smoother transition out of the way.

Don't feed the trolls only goes so far. Forced starvation, now that's a plan.

Bri

Oh I like that idea ^ we called it squelching. It's funny cause they only see the posts they make but no one else does

Pilvinen

Shadow bans sounds so cruel...

Robert

@Pilvinen Shadow banning is literally the best way in a forum based environment to deny users (mostly trolls) access to the forums.

psychobunny

There is a plugin already:

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-squash/

You'll need this as well:
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-superusers/

We built it for a customer but tbh I'm not a fan of the actual functionality, we would definitely not use it here even on the rowdy sort of crowd

Edit: YMMV, I haven't updated this since 0.6x - that said, from memory I don't think this uses any deprecated hooks. If it blows up submit an issue and I'll look at it Monday. Its also not on npm so please git clone to node_modules to install

Bri

What are your reasons against that method of banning?

psychobunny

For here at least, we are okay with constructive and sometimes destructive criticism to a point haha. It only makes us strive to be better in the end

Bri

Oh no, that's completely fine, but I don't think I've seen any trolls (at least the type I'm familiar with) on this community...