Should permanent banning be a moderator role?

[Haydric]

XF2 adds a moderator permission so you can allow your moderators to ban users on the front end:

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It looks something like this:

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You may decide to give that permission to only certain senior moderators, or even still restrict it to admins, but at least it means admins can ban on the front end now, instead of having to log in to the Admin CP.

See and this was something that I was essentially excited for when I started to look at the developer previews. Thanks you guys for that

 

[Neutral Singh]

IMHO, when it comes banning a user, it has to be an admin's job as at that moment he is modertating between the member and the moderator...

 

[CFodder]

Will it be an option to only allow Moderators to ban for a certain amount of time and not permanently. Only thinking this as it might be a good middle ground for admins that have delegated certain responsibilities but want to oversee perma bans themselves.

 

[Kirby]

Being able to give moderators the permission to directly ban users does make thing a lot easier, in many cases (at least for us) using the warning system creates unnecessary overheadand does complicate work for our moderators.

As an admin, you really do not want to have to deal with every single user ban if you are administrating about 70 forums.

 

[Bread]

We do not allow any moderators to ban whether temporary or permanent. On our big board, moderators only have the ability to issue warnings and users are temporarily banned based on the number of warning points they have. After a certain amount of warnings and before they have the chance to expire (warnings expire in 6 months on our site), the user's case is passed along to the admin team where they will vote on whether a permanent ban of the individual is needed or not.

 

[CFodder]

Being able to give moderators the permission to directly ban users does make thing a lot easier, in many cases (at least for us) using the warning system creates unnecessary overheadand does complicate work for our moderators.

As an admin, you really do not want to have to deal with every single user ban if you are administrating about 70 forums.

I guess it really does depend on your definition of being an administrator of a forum.