Impose a temporary write lockout on a user for misbehaviour

[Tirokk]

Authored by roschaefer
Sep 14, 2018
Closed Feb 18, 2020

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As a moderator, I would like to impose write lockouts on users who conduct misbehavior. If e.g. a user violates our code of conduct, but the misconduct is not bad enough to ban, I could prevent the user from creating posts or commenting on posts. This write lockout could be temporarily. In that case, the timeout could also be accumulative, ie. if a user violates the code of conduct many times, the timeout increases for every violation.

Describe the solution you'd like
As a moderator I want to see a button on the user profile to impose a write lockout. It could be labeled "hold your breath" or sth. similar. After a confirmation the user cannot write posts or comments any more.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• We could restrict the power to admins, not moderators.
• We could put the button on the admin interface, but moderators have currently no access to it
• Different strategies as described above

Additional context

[Tirokk]

Authored by datenbrei
Mar 27, 2019

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This should be possible for moderators, not admins. Later we possibly could have 2-3 levels of moderation. But it will stay an moderation task.

[Tirokk]

Authored by stale[bot]
Nov 19, 2019

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[Tirokk]

Authored by mattwr18
Nov 20, 2019

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I guess this is still relevant? has the moderation team brought up any real cases where they would have liked to have been able to impose a temporary writing ban @datenbrei ??

[Tirokk]

Authored by stale[bot]
Jan 19, 2020

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.