I'm not, strictly speaking. We treat it as a community-owned forum so I try to treat lightly, though I have taken more control over some areas of late, mostly because no one was showing any interest otherwise. I wish we had gone the route of the original admin team owning it. Though that would have had problems, too, since one of us (the one who originally installed Xenforo) left in a huff a while ago.
If not already, immediately ban (temp or permanent) the user for the racism, hopefully it's against your site rules? If not a permanent ban, then it would be an ideal case to deploy XF's discouraged user functionality?
https://xenforo.com/docs/xf2/users/#discouraging-users
We had one from the early days who made sense back in 1998 but, as the years went on, his posts became more obtuse and off-the-wall. He was never doing anything wrong but towards the end, most of his posts made no sense whatsoever. Unfortunately he was a local and, when I'd let it slip I had changed jobs, the dude was semi-stalking me, showing up at my workplace a few times trying to waste time with idle chit-chat. Thankfully that ended in a hurry, since he could never get ahold of me. Finally, we granted him the courtesy of the full experience of "Discouraged" in XenForo. After a year of struggling and (obviously) making fewer posts, he made a post about the forum loading strangely, then finally stopped posting and after about four years of lurking, hasn't visited us in three years now.
I'm feeling so...I don't know, Irish (?) today? Comically so, I might add.
I'd be reviewing your rules and possibly putting the guy into a usergroup that makes him read and react only for a matter of weeks to stop him trolling and/or being a racist person.
It is and that's why he got a temporary ban, but the mods of the day decided that it was a first offence and he may have been unaware of the racist connotation (no, I didn't buy it but read on). Basically, back at the beginning another admin pushed for the approach that mods mod and admins admin and tends to get cranky if I mod rather than coaxing the mods into doing it. There was another member that I would have kicked pretty early in the game who ended being around for years because the mods just don't (or didn't) like permabanning.If not already, immediately ban (temp or permanent) the user for the racism, hopefully it's against your site rules? If not a permanent ban, then it would be an ideal case to deploy XF's discouraged user functionality?
