VBulletin questions

[Van Hellseek]

Thought I should probably start a 'general' vB questions thread as I've asked a few lately, and don't want to spam up this section with them.

Of course I ask on other boards too, including the official one, but I like to ask here too as I'm less likely to get useless replies from 13-yr olds who bought their license with their pocket money.

Anyway,

First I want to know how to properly ban someone.

I created a membergroup called "Banned" and selected "ban user" from the persons profile, but he still appears in the memberlist whenever he visits the site.

Plus I'm not seeing any options for banning email addresses/ip addresses/host masks etc. From what I can see 'banning' just seems to go by username.

So how do I properly ban someone?

 

[dan^uk]

For your "Banned" usergroup.
1. Go to Usergroups -> Usergroup Manager -> Edit Usergroup
2. Then under "Usergroup Options" set "This Usergroup is not a 'Banned' Group" to "No"
3. Also check all the other permissions for that group (most should be "No")

The other banning options are under vBulletin Options -> User Banning Options

The manual for vBulletin is here: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/

 

[Van Hellseek]

Thanks.

Edit: Actually that didn't work... He still appears in the "currently active users" list, when he visits the site.


Next;

How do you disable "how many are viewing" on the board index?

 

[dan^uk]

"AdminCP -> vBulletin Options -> Forums Home Page Options - > Display Logged in Users?"

 

[Van Hellseek]

But I want to display logged in users... It's just the thing in the pic I want to disable.

 

[Felix]

Banned users will still appear in the list, they just won't be able to see anything and should receive an access denied page. Have you tried creating a test user that is banned?

 

[dan^uk]

But I want to display logged in users... It's just the thing in the pic I want to disable.

You need to remove the following code from the "forumhome_forumbit_level1_post" template and the "forumhome_forumbit_level2_post" template:-

<if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="smallfont">(<phrase 1="$forum[browsers]">$vbphrase[x_viewing]</phrase>)</span></if>

 

[dazphoenix]

banning the ip address of that user in the .htaccess file will stop them getting near the site

 

[Kemik]

banning the ip address of that user in the .htaccess file will stop them getting near the site

IPs are dynamic usually. I wouldn't advise banning my IP.

 

[Van Hellseek]

How do I ban a host name?

The user in question just signed up again!

Same host name *snip*.hsd1.fl.comcast.net

There must be a way to ban him this way???

This guy has been pestering the young girls on my forum so please help!

 

[B1aderunner]

Use unique email addresses, require users to conform them manually and set your new registrations to be moderated so that you have to approve them before they have any real access.

If they get through all that just ban them again. It is far slower and a much harder process for them to register than it is for you to ban them...keep doing it and they will get bored very quickly.