User Admin
Ban Control
Disallowed Username
User Management
User Permissions
Ranks
See also:
Forum Admin
General Admin
Group Admin
Styles Admin
User Admin
Ban Control
This panel allows you to ban users using several methods.
This panel also makes it easy to remove bans.
Banning by username
When a username is banned, that user may no longer login to your board.
When they login, they will be informed that they have been banned.
The user may still view and read the board as a Guest (Anonymous User).
To prevent a user from seeing your board at all, you must ban them by IP.
For more information, see "Banning by IP or Hostname".
To ban by username, simply select the username(s) to ban in the
Ban one or more specific users listbox.
To ban more than one username at once,
simply select all of the usernames you are trying to ban.
This is normally accomplished by holding the CTRL key and clicking each name.
When all of the desired names are selected, press Submit to add the ban information
to the database.
Similarly, to un-ban usernames, simply select the banned username(s)
from the Un-ban one or more specific users listbox and press Submit.
Banning by IP or Hostname
When an IP or hostname is banned, your board's content will be
blocked from any connection coming from that IP or host.
Users from a banned IP will be informed of the ban, but may not view the board at all.
To ban by IP or hostname, simply enter the IP address or
hostname to ban and click Submit. To specify multiple IPs or hostnames,
you may separate the multiple entries with commas (,). For instance,
to ban the IP 192.168.8.19 and the hostname banned.cheese.com,
you would enter 192.168.8.19,banned.cheese.com
You may also ban multiple IPs or hostnames using ranges and wildcard characters.
To ban a range of IPs, use -(hyphen) (e.g. 192.168.8.19-124).
Banning a range of IPs will cause each IP in that range to be added to the list,
so using specific IPs or wildcards is preferred.
The wildcard *(asterisk) will match any characters,
so to ban all IPs that begin with 192.168, use 192.168.*.*
This also works with hostnames.
For example *.cheese.com will ban all hostnames that end with ".cheese.com"
To un-ban IPs and hostnames,
simply select the banned IP or hostname from the
Un-ban one or more IP addresses listbox and press Submit.
Banning by email address
Banning an email address prevents anyone from registering using
that banned email address. Any users currently using a banned email will not be affected.
To deny the user access to the board,
you must still ban their username or delete their account.
When someone tries to register with a banned email address,
the registration will fail, and they will be informed
that it failed due to a banned email address.
To ban an email address, simply enter the email address to ban into
the text field and click Submit.
You may ban multiple addresses by separating them by commas.
You may also use the wildcard *(asterisk) to ban email addresses meeting certain criteria.
For instance, to ban all email addresses at hotmail.com, you would enter *@hotmail.com
into the field.
To un-ban email addresses, simply select the banned email address from
the Un-ban one or more email addresses listbox and press Submit.
Disallowed Username
This panel will allow you to specify usernames that you do not want other people to use.
This is commonly used to prevent users from using profanity in their usernames.
Another use is preventing users from impersonating board administrators by
registering similar usernames. When someone tries to register using a name that has been
disallowed, the registration will fail, and they will be informed that the username has been disallowed.
To disallow a username, simply enter it into the text field and click Add.
You may use the wildcard *(asterisk) to match any character.
For instance, to disallow all usernames that contain "cheese" (
with any characters before and/or after), simple disallow *cheese*
To re-allow usernames, simply select the disallowed username(s)
from the dropdown list and click Delete.
User Management
This panel will allow you to change settings and information for any user
on your board. To use it, simply enter a username into the text field and click Submit.
This panel will allow you to edit any part of a user's profile.
The panel is identical to the standard profile panel,
with a few extra settings at the end.
At the bottom of this panel there are Special admin-only fields that are
not part of the standard profile settings.
User is Active - You may deactivate/activate a user.
This is most often used to activate a user who is having trouble
with email activation.
A user may not log in while their account is inactive.
Can send Private Messages/Can display Avatar - Both of these may
be turned on or off for each user.
Rank Title - Allows you to specify a
Special Rank for a user.
If "No special rank assigned" is selected, the user's rank
will be determined by the normal rank system.
For more information, see "Ranks".
Delete this user? - To delete a user, check this box and click Submit.
A deleted user's posts are converted to Anonymous posts with their old username
as the name specified.
User Permissions
This panel will allow you to control a user's level,
and their access to private forums.
You can also specify users as moderators of a forum.
To edit a user's permissions, select the group name from the dropdown box,
and click Look Up User. To grant moderator access to a user,
look in the desired forum's row.
In the last dropdown box in the list, choose Is Moderator.
User Level
User - The user is a normal user.
They may have special permissions such as group membership
or moderation privileges, but they have no access to the administration panel.
Administrator - The user is a board Administrator.
This means that they have access to the administration panel, and
they have moderator permissions in every forum and group.
Simple User Permissions
To grant a user access to a private forum using Simple Permissions,
Choose Allowed Access in the Simple Permissions for that forum.
Choosing Allowed Access is the same as setting all
Advanced Group Permissions to ON.
Advanced User Permissions
Advanced Permissions will allow you to grant specific behaviors to a user.
In the Advanced Permissions panel, there will be a dropdown box for each Permission
type that is set to PRIVATE in the Forum Permissions panel
(for more information, see "Forum Permissions").
To grant the user a specific PRIVATE permission in a forum,
simply set the appropriate dropdown box to ON.
To grant all PRIVATE permissions of a forum to a user,
use Allowed Access in simple mode.
Ranks
A Rank is a special title that appears next to each user's username when
they post. It also appears in their profile.
Ranks are a way to show how long someone has been posting to your board,
or how active they are. Ranks are also a way to indicate something special
about a member or a group of members.
There are two types of Ranks, normal Ranks and Special Ranks.
Normal Ranks are granted to all users based on their post count.
Special Ranks are granted to specific users in the User Management Panel
(for more information, see User Management).
To create a rank, click Add New Rank.
Enter the appropriate information and click Submit.
For more information on the settings, see "Editing Ranks" below.
Editing Ranks
To edit a Rank, click Edit in the appropriate row.
There are several settings to edit for a Rank.
Title - The title the Rank grants to a user of that Rank.
The title normally shows up below the user's name in his/her profile and each
of his/her posts.
Special Rank - If this is set to yes,
then the Rank must be granted specifically to users through the User Management Panel.
If this is set to yes, then the Minimum Posts field does
not apply to this rank.
Minimum Posts - The lowest number of posts a user must have
to obtain this Rank (if it is not a Special Rank).
If there are multiple Ranks on a board, a user's Rank will be the Rank he/she
qualifies for with the highest minimum post setting.
For example, if a user has 70 posts, and there are Ranks:
Bite-Size Cheese (Min Post 10)
Cheese Cube (Min Post 25)
Cheese Wheel (Min Post 50)
The Big Cheese (Min Post 100)
Although the user qualifies for ranks
Bite-Size Cheese, Cheese Cube, Cheese Wheel;
he/she's title will be Cheese Wheel,
because that is the highest rank he/she qualifies for.
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