Moderating groups

This is an issue. I have been a member her for 10+ years. I admin a group amd I moderate for a group (salacious Interrogatory). We recently banned a member for bad behavior and slinging insults in the group. He is banned. However banning someone apparently means that he cannot start a new thread. He can still reply to posts in the group. This member has posted recently and I as a moderator for the group AND the admin for the group CANNOT delete his reply or modify it.

My question is: how does this make the other members in my groups feel safe? We try to run an inclusive safe community and we cant police our own group? This is a pretty serious breach of trust. Can you fix this problem? Its not a new problem youve known about it for a long while. But now we actually have a reason to use our powers to police our groups and youve essentially cut our balls off.

Im very disappointed

That makes no sense. A ban on posting to a group should cover both new posts and replies or it is meaningless. Hopefully, something is stuffed up somewhere because this seems odd to be the expected behaviour. One of the mods or Jen will have to comment.

I have picked up the abuse report you raised for this. Please allow me some time to investigate now that I know which group applies.

So yes there does indeed appear to be an issue which I have now reported to the development team; I personally do not recall doing so previously but then, to be fair, I don't recall what I had for dinner last night. In the interim, I have asked the member in question to refrain from participating in that group.

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So yes there does indeed appear to be an issue which I have now reported to the development team; I personally do not recall doing so previously but then, to be fair, I don't recall what I had for dinner last night. In the interim, I have the member in question to refrain from participating in that group.

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So yes there does indeed appear to be an issue which I have now reported to the development team; I personally do not recall doing so previously but then, to be fair, I don't recall what I had for dinner last night. In the interim, I have the member in question to refrain from participating in that group.

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That makes no sense. A ban on posting to a group should cover both new posts and replies or it is meaningless. Hopefully, something is stuffed up somewhere because this seems odd to be the expected behaviour. One of the mods or Jen will have to comment.

It doesn't though

This isn't new. It's been that way since I joined

Banning or blocking someone is mostly symbolic

I have reported this over the years and I understand

I code, but hate fixing someone else's cide.

Lush is a patchwork of code and coders and different languages even. It simply has to be

Finding this glitch would be a nightmare

I hate fixing my own shit, and poorly annotated code from others sucks ass, TBH.

Also, trying to fix it cold could cause worse problems

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Lush is a patchwork of code and coders and different languages even. It simply has to be

And I really don't understand why it was built that way. I could build this place on something like Xenforo with a few choice add-ons. Would not even cost that much and things like this are coded in already, admins and owners just need to configure them. And it's all, even the add-ons, PHP with some JS. Maybe because I am IT, not software, but my attitude for a long time has been that if you can build what you want/need on a platform, why code it from scratch? I even worked out a business plan for rebuilding SS using this platform (when it looked like the new owners might not take it on, but they eventually did).

(That said, at work we are coding up a new system from a lower level. Maybe not from scratch but using frameworks and such, not a full platform).

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Ignore my last post.

I DO want the issue fixed

I was just saying it is a known long time problem and not an easy fix

I would love for it to work right

This is the first ban we have had

Sorry I wasn't clear

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And I really don't understand why it was built that way. I could build this place on something like Xenforo with a few choice add-ons. Would not even cost that much and things like this are coded in already, admins and owners just need to configure them. And it's all, even the add-ons, PHP with some JS. Maybe because I am IT, not software, but my attitude for a long time has been that if you can build what you want/need on a platform, why code it from scratch? I even worked out a business plan for rebuilding SS using this platform (when it looked like the new owners might not take it on, but they eventually did).

(That said, at work we are coding up a new system from a lower level. Maybe not from scratch but using frameworks and such, not a full platform).

It wasn't DESIGNED like that, it started normal, but you need code updates for bug fixes, security patches, new features etc

All websites are patched together

Lush is probably 20 years old and a lot changed over time

It's not a bug. All sites go through it, but small sites like this don't have a billion dollars budget

Facebook is probably changed slightly by the hour or minute, but that's dozens of coders going 24/7

A fix for this was loaded today. A member that is banned from a group can now see the group home page and that's it.