Forum Activity for @strumelia

Moving a Forum Category to another Profile

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Are you talking about moving more than a hundred discussions, or just a few dozen?

user/signup challenges

Using Jamroom

Holly, are you in this place and setting as here?:
(here's an example of one of my "admin-viewable only, new pending account quiz questions"....)

...and di you modify it starting from your OWN profil;e page, then your ACCOUNT TAB, then the Form Designer button from THAT location...

Order Groups by Member Count

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Awesome!!!! Thank you SO MUCH Paul!

The Jamroom Team is just so amazing and responsive to customer needs.

Dealing with Old Suspended Members

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Since an undesirable member may easily apply under a new user name or a different email address, I like to use the Banned module.
There, I create new banned items: 1 for the email address they use. 1 for their user/profile name. perhaps one for their domain if they use a custom domain, but my best tool is to have their IP address:

Whenever i get a new member apply to get approved, the email notification contains their IP address. I filter and save these emails into a folder I keep, so if someone gives me trouble later I can look up their IP address. Another place to get their IP is if they are currently logged in to your site, you'll see it in your Users Online in your Dashboard at: /core/dashboard/online ...but only if they are logged in. (so saving the 'new member notification' emails is better).
If you have their ip address, you can ban that specific IP in your Banned module, but ALSO you can broaden the ip a bit to cover if they change their IP address slightly within their same geographical location. Broaden it too much and you'll be banning entire cities, so be judicious. Example:
the bad member has IP of: 88.228.11.166 I would ban that IP, also I'd ban: 88.228.1 or 88.228.11
That would ban everyone in their immediate vicinity serviced by their online provider.
Once I made a banned IP too broad, and some woman from a small city in Australia complained that she couldn't sign up- lol. So I went in to my banned ips and narrowed that one just a bit, and it let her in but still kept out the bad guy- it was similar to (using the above random example) changing the ban from 88.228.1 to 88.228.11 ...when the guy I'm wanting to ban has the full ip of: 88.228.11.166

The other thing you'll want to know is that you can DE-ACTIVATE a member rather than simply putting them into a restrictive quota. Go to any member's Settings and to their Profile TAB. You'll see a little check box for "Profile Active". If you UN check that and save, only Admins will be able to see that member or their content. The member will also not show in the member list or in a member search for them, their posts, photos, content etc will not show to non-admins. They'll be invisible to all site members except admins. They won't be able to do or post anything. You can re-activate them if you choose, or just leave them hanging in limbo. To go even further, or if you do want their content to keep showing but render them unable to log into that account, you can also simply change their password. That way they can no longer log in at all under that account, so their account will be 'dead' to them. Again, you could always give them the new PW if you want them back.
De-activating a member is like a SUPER way of keeping them from doing ANYTHING and also makes them INVISIBLE except to admins. It's easier and more severe and certain than putting them into a restricted action quota.

Personally, I tend to simply delete the profile but put a semi-broad range of their IP into the banned list. The IP range thing is not usually a problem unless you make it too expansive or it's covering a super concentrated city area like Manhattan. Googe IP range info and you can quickly learn about IP ranges.

updated by @strumelia: 10/01/16 11:50:00AM

Can we search threads inside individual groups (like searching threads inside individual forums)?

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There is a jamroom module for "Change Item Owner" with which you can change the 'owner' of an existing group to another profile:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/251/change-item-owner

Order Groups by Member Count

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I know my 60 or so groups originally got ordered correctly by member count way back before I went live a years ago, not sure how exactly it was done then (I do remember asking for help with it though)? I do see that they are NOT currently listed by the order they were created, so the question I have is-
what criteria IS being used for the order in which they are listed right now?

If my site is no longer correctly sorting them by member count as it did when I went live, then is there maybe just a way for me to MANUALLY edit the order in which they are listed on my site's /group page ?

Order Groups by Member Count

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Nope. It was purposely set to order via number of group members.

In checking, it seems to be showing the correct current number of members for each group. So it's not RE-ordering when one group surpasses another, like it should be.

updated by @strumelia: 09/30/16 05:24:08PM

Order Groups by Member Count

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Huh? It's listing the groups from top to bottom in order of the number of members the group has...from group with most members, to group with least members. How is that 'not working'?

Edit: I see what you mean- Originally it listed everything in right order, but I think perhaps it has not readjusted itself properly as members have joined or left the group over time maybe? Or if members have been removed from the site? (leaving thier user ID# behind?)
Now I've simply added to the puzzle!


updated by @strumelia: 09/30/16 04:45:33PM

Order Groups by Member Count

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Paul, my site is set up to show groups ordered by member count, so feel free to check my code to see what was done there if you like.

Order Groups by Member Count

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Are you talking about a list of groups showing on your site home page (in your skin Index.tpl), OR the list of groups on your /group page (controlled by your Groups module "index.tpl") ? Or both locations?