| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 3 / 5 |
| Reliability | 5 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 3 / 5 |
| Documentation | 5 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 1 |
The Ban and Unpublish module makes it easier to clean up after registered spammers and other problem users by implementing a bulk operation that appears at Home > Administer > User management > Users. This module adds a single drop-down option to the list page that performs the following in... [More...]
| Maintainer: | yelvington |
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| Categories: | Spam prevention, User management, Views |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
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| 6.x-1.1 | 2010-Sep-17 | Download | Recommended |
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Feb-25 | Download | Development |
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I was very excited when I found this module - on a forum I help manage, we get a lot of spam users logging in and posting multiple comments across multiple different topics. We haven't the resources to overhaul the whole thing and add a proper spam control system right now, so I figured this was exactly what I need, just to keep things tidy.
First up, for what it's worth, we eliminated about 80% of spam by switching off the auto-login option in LoginToboggan. I installed Unpublish And Ban for the rest, obviously real people, who are more inclined to post multiple times under the same login.
And... it does what it says on the tin, perfectly well. You set up a view, expose the bulk operation, select your users and click Ban. However, it only works against User views, which won't show you any node or comment content. I've resorted to opening two tabs, so I can find the dodgy posts in Latest Posts, then swap tabs & look up the user in my Ban-User view. A related issue is that there aren't many useful (for this task) ways to order the users - best fit is descending by login date. Basically, if I could set up a view with nodes or comments (even just enable the operation on my Latest Posts list), then it'd be the best thing ever.
No idea whether it's even possible to set up a bulk operation in such a way, but strictly from a user POV, this module just misses the mark. It's still useful, definitely it's made spam removal easier than it was before.
* & if anyone's rolling their eyes right now because there's a module everyone uses to reference node content in a user view, feel free to contact me via my site.
