baldrick: thread user lock-outs

[lordsmurf]

Baldrick, here's an idea for flame-war prevention:

I see lots of posts that start great, but quickly turn sour because of two members. Often like this:

0: Question: Does it?
1: Yes
2: No.
1: Yes. I know more than you.
2: No. I know more with half my brain.
1: Yes, idiot.
2: No, moron.
.........................etc etc etc

The poor thread-starter normally never gets his message answered, and worse, the post is locked or hidden altogether (special access only). The suggestion of "start it again" is nice and all, but rarely works.

I know it is possible with PHP. I just lack the PHP skills at the level needed for this...

Why not create an extension for mods to use which would allow them to ban users from certain threads? The forum then locks them out of that ONE thread so it may continue unhindered by their childishness. They can fight via PM or e-mail.

Normally, those members never add anything useful again to the thread, so I see the "well, what if they have something useful to say later" argument as thin. If that had anything useful to say, they would have or should have said it to begin with.

[pacmania_2001]

We have the ability to split the topics (i.e. remove certain messages from the thread as a whole). So if the situation is something like you described above generally I will just warn then remove those certain topics.

It doesn't stop the poster from coming back but if they do return to their old ways then we simply keep giving them warnings or ban them.

[overloaded_ide]

Speaking of locking or spliting topics,

I was posting alot in a guide trying to help a user posting alot in the guide.
Errr
I didn't know it was actually in the guide! I thought it was more of a thread that started with the guide and the guide itself was elsewhere.

Can we get that split?
I feel it should actually have been a seperate thread.

I think it was a new tmpgenc DVD author guide.
I can find the url if you want.

Thanks

[BJ_M]

i split that once already