Reply With QuoteOnce you've added them to the banned list, you should be able to delete them as members.
I've had some spammers and other deviants try to register on my site, and I'd like to keep them from ever darkening my door again. I tried listing them in the "banned user" group, but they were still being counted in my Forum Member total, which made it seem like I had more members than I actually did. So instead I've listed their email addresses and IP numbers in the User Banning Option part in vBulletin options. Is this the best way to go?
Thanks for your help.
Once you've added them to the banned list, you should be able to delete them as members.
When I ban a spammer, I first ban their email address (with spammers this doesn't often help) then delete their account. You should be able to delete any account reguardless of user group.
Depending on how large your forum is you may just want to keep the account in a banned user group this way it looks like you have more members.
Guys, I have a problem and need to know if you have a solution. Is it possible to ban users to write in the forum, without letting anyone else know? The Idea is to prohibit somehow their access (without ip blocking or deleting - so they would know and have prove via screenshot) and prevent them from posting again, while everyone else thinks that everything runs smoothly.
I could not find anything in the admin controll panel except user deleting, ip-banning and register restricting via email-name, but this does not help. All those ways are too obvious.
Create a new usergroup, place the user in that group and set the permissions to No under the Post / Thread Permissions section for each forum.Originally Posted by curious_admin
What about the "send user to conventry" method, or whatever it's called? That effectively puts the member on ignore for all other members - s/he can post but the posts will never be seen by anyone.
I'm not sure if this is an Admin option or a plugin...
Thank you for the reply, I know both options already, but we want to prohibit their access (so no reading as well) but at the same time being able to blame it on cookies, firewall or whatever...
What I have found is that often spammers open up multiple accounts- and you can only really see this by checking the IP address. I banned one here that had 6 usernames all with the same IP. So, I banned the IP.
Use the permission masking, if it is just a small number of users you are trying to block. By altering the masking, you can do anything you want.
Use the miserable users hack.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...iserable+users
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