Recent content by Harpers Tate

I should have been clearer. It's the situation where you have several Moderators, and several nodes, and some (or all) Moderators do NOT oversee all the nodes; each has their own "patch" which is only part of the whole. That is what is not readily set up.

Sadly lacking in XF's permissions setup and the subject of a long-outstanding change request I made. You can't allocate specific Moderator permissions for a given node by UserGroup; only at an individual node<>user level. The node can be a category (with no posts of its own) or a parent node...

The right way to go about this (or many other similar conditional permissions) is by use of secondary usergroups as PaulB says. No addons needed. All users by default do not have this permission. The permission is granted by membership of a secondary UserGroup. You "promote" users into this...

AdminCP. Logs > Spam Cleaner Log . Find required user, hit "restore". (Does not remove entry from StopForumSpam, etc., if you made one. That has to be done by correspondence). For future ref, you can, I believe, set a limit on the number of posts a user has which, if exceeded, disables the...

I'll categorise users thus: obvious bans - spammers, crooks, serial miscreants and so on. At the point of banning, that decision is all but final. We don't normally delete such accounts so in reality they could be restored, but that is rare. less obvious cases. Define these as you will. In...

Automated outbound diallers just dial any number they want, known or not. If they get an answer, it's routed to either an IVR responder or a human.

Bear in mind: if your forum sends out Email alerts to conversation participants containing message text, then there is absolutely nothing you can do to redact that from the inboxes of the recipients.

They can, of course, work around it in a somewhat clunky way. I guess the need to buy a custom development would depend on how frequently this happens. e.g. In this post @christisking said and I can suggest a workround. and I can suggest a workround.

I suppose the difficulty is deciding what is a duplicate account and what is not. Two separate people might use the same IP use the same computer and browser have the same street address and so on, and yet still be legitimately different; friends; husband and wife, etc. Which is why it can...

Here is what we do in case it's of help. Prior to a full ban, we place the user into a secondary UserGroup (we call it "Suspended" - your choice of title). We do that typically by issuing a Warning with an associated action to add the UserGroup. It can, of course, also be added in the...

Just a comment for your consideration - not a solution: Removing posts mid-thread can make the residue harder to follow and read by those who still have access. Removing entire threads (i.e. started by the exiting member) will remove all the responses - including some that others may still find...

There is an add-on to change post author. But as a "fudge" workround you can: find an existing post by B that is timestamped earlier than the A original (only works if one exists) copy that post to a new thread merge the two threads (original A, new B) such that the new B thread is the...

A tiny proportion of members who are difficut to deal with - as in, they tread a very fine line between being clearly and justifiably ban-worthy and being serial miscreants without ever quite crossing that line. Oh, and the Moderator permissions setup in XenForo, which was, and remains, badly...

I suppose, to be fair to new users, the word "No" has a specific meaning which isn't accurate in this context. "Not set" or "Inherit" or another passive term might be more "intuitive". As with most things, once you have actually RT(F)M and tried it out a few times, it does become like riding...

Whilst there is already an add-on for User Notes on a profile, I'd agree that such a feature for a THREAD alongside would hugely improve moderator productivity. As it is, all we have is tools that distance the comments from the thread itself - such as either Posts in a Private forum or a group...