Pretty self-explanatory. May take some work to implement, but basically if some gets forum-banned, this'll prevent the creation of alt accounts. Ofc, if someone abuses this then it's a simple IP ban. There are obviously some drawbacks. (Another idea would be to allow guests to post only if they have a password, which would be e-mailed to the person who got forum-banned. Would help prevent bot spam.)
If guests could post the forums would be flooded with spambots, not to mention that there would be no simple way for a normal moderator to get rid of them (the bots, not the threads). If you even bother to go through with the whole email password thing, you may as well just create an account at this point. Spambots and such aside, if the guest does post an appeal, it might not actually be the person that's appealing, and that just creates a whole other mess, since the guest wouldn't be named...unless there's a way to do that, which again, if you bother going through with that, you might as well create an account. I can see where you were going with this, but at the end of the day it's just not practical.
So maybe make 2 stages of forum ban, the first one with being access to view/post in the appeals section, but not able to do anything else, and the second one is total, if they abuse the first privilege? However, I'm not sure how one would go about this as I'm not a XenForo admin.
I see this idea is still getting developed so I can't give my support yet, however I have some questions... -What if someone decided to share their forum guest password after they make their appeal? -Would they have access to the rest of the forums?
-I think I want to move on from that OG idea, I'll update the thread likewise. Good counterarguments by UpsettedFizz. -No
No support, Spambots would cause chaos and we like to encourage more people into the community, sometimes, people explore the forums after making an appeal while waiting for a mod to reply.
He's talking about when people get forum banned, not banned in game. When appealing for a banned forum account, you create a temporary account used SOLELY for appealing. You may not use said account to do anything else on the forums until your appeal is accepted.
Which I mentioned here on a different matter than what I think you're on: And besides, spambots are always a problem m8. You just don't ever really see them because the mods get them almost instantly 99% of the time. I remember even being to usually tell when an account was going to be a spambot based solely on its name. What I was saying is that spambots would become even more of a problem because you can't exactly uh, ban a guest easily. When a spambot account is left unbanned, it will usually continue to post threads until it is.
Sorry, I've got no support for this one. The whole issue with spambots and the potential of guests not being identifiable has already been mentioned. Personally, I feel the five or so minutes taken to make an account are worth the effort if you really want to post an appeal. Just seems unnecessary and tough to work with, so I'm going to say no.
