Re: Ask The Staff 'Anything'
Tsuyu;114230 said:
Here's a question: What do they call a quarter pounder with cheese in France...?
Probably the same thing we do: "Yummy!"
Walker;114231 said:
First, and more serious: how exactly does banning work? Does it block the IP address? What if the member used more than one location to get on? Does it just block the current username and member account? Yeah, this is kinda an odd question. I was just trying to figure out how it would serve any purpose. It seems like it'd be pretty easy to get around.
A 'basic' banning would just be a case of disabling a member's account; they can effectively still make more accounts by registering over and over again though, provided they have multiple backup email address'.
We do have the ability to ban by IP and we normally do to repeat offenders who continue to register account, after account, after account. There are obviously numerous ways to bypass an IP ban that I won't go into but I can honestly say that it's much easier for us to ban a person's account then it is for a troll to constantly keep churning out new ones.
Dark_Master;114232 said:
can we have new usergroups for writers and artists? or would that be too much work for steve?
It wouldn't be too much work at all, no. However, it does initially become a hassle when I have to configure a new usergroup's permissions to gel with the site. For instance: when a new usergroup is created, they have access to read the Staff forum. They have the ability to play in the arcade and upload to the gallery (both features reserved exclusively for
Premium Membership. And some other things that elude me right now...
It's just a slightly tedious, but definitely manageable flaw in our forum software, that's all. I'm currently just waiting to see how much interest in the new usergroup(s) there is and whether it would it would even be a good idea or nor before I go ahead and set the wheels in motion.