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Blocking users from submitting ban appeals

J_C___ edited this page Sep 1, 2021 · 1 revision

AFTER Netlify has deployed your site successfully you may experience bad users who wish to abuse your appeal system. There is a way to block users from submitting any additional appeal requests and clogging up your queue.

  1. Navigate to github where you have cloned this repository.
  2. Click into the src/ folder
  3. Locate the config.json file and edit it. How to edit the config.json file

How to properly edit the config.json file

  1. Add the user ID of the user you'd like to block to the list of blocked_users surrounded in quotes.
  2. Specify a commit message (optional)
    1. Ensure "Commit directly to the master branch" is selected
  3. Select the green "Commit Changes" button
    1. For an example of how this should be done, see the config.json.example file in the same directory