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Banning Users
Why Ban a User?
As a moderator, you have the ability to ban individual users. Those who are causing trouble by purposefully vandalizing the site or inciting flame wars are the usual candidates for such punishment. After they are banned, they can no longer make any contributions on the site.
How To Ban a Registered User
You may ban a registered user by going to their profile page and clicking on "Change Permissions". There, you will be given several options, one of which is to ban the user. How To Unban a User
You can unban a user that you have previously banned by going to their profile page and clicking the Unban button. You can use the Banned accounts report to see a list of banned users.Banning IP Addresses
Many acts of vandalism are not committed by registered users, but anonymous ones. It is possible to ban an IP address the same way you can ban a registered user. However, we urge you to do this only as a last resort. Many Internet service providers only assign a certain amount of IP addresses, meaning that more than one person could have the same address. Essentially, you could be banning potential, and innocent, users of your site. However, extreme cases may call for it.Steps for IP banning anonymous editors:
- Click on "complete history" near the bottom of the page.
- Find the anonymous edit of the user that you need to ban
- Click on their IP address (a series of numbers such as 127.0.0.1)
- Click on the Ban button
Steps for IP banning anonymous commenter's:
- Find the anonymous post of the user that you need to ban
- Click on their IP address (a series of numbers such as 127.0.0.1)
- Click on the Ban button
Unbanning an IP is just like unbanning a user. Go to the IP account that was banned, and there should be a unban button on the right. Hit unban and the user is un-IP banned.
Note: If you do not have Moderator, Administrator, or Creator status, you will see "anonymous" instead of an IP address.
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| Anonymous | Deleting a whole class of students | 12 | Oct 31 2009, 6:13 PM EDT by sowhat97 | ||
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Thread started: Sep 7 2009, 11:27 PM EDT
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I started my wetpaint site last year with a group of students. Is there an easy way to delete them all in one go so a new class can use the site?
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| Anonymous | completely deleting a member | 4 | Sep 29 2009, 8:49 PM EDT by Baby_Apple | ||
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Thread started: Aug 12 2009, 4:55 AM EDT
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how a member can be deleted completely from wetpaint so he cannot see the discussions.
i run an online discussion for my students which is required for my course, and students drop from the course, so i have to remove them in order to prevent them from seeing the contributions of the other students. |
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| Anonymous | Can current users see the list of banned users? | 2 | Aug 13 2009, 10:06 AM EDT by moonbaby11 | ||
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Thread started: Aug 13 2009, 10:03 AM EDT
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I also use this site as a supplement to a course and I've been banning former students to clean the slate for my new students...however, will my new students be able to see who I've banned, or is that something that only I see as an administrator? Sort of an odd thing to have to explain if current users can tell who's been banned...
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