How to Make Banned User Profiles Invisible?

[Rik Brown]

Short of actually deleting a user record, is there a way to make the user profiles of banned users un-viewable (as if they weren't there at all) by the public? Frankly, as the admin, I don't need to see...

[Rik Brown]

Michael:

If you are still around (this is an old post), a big thanks for this. When I ban a user, it is normally for spamming and that ban is permanent. I never use any of the other options....

[Rik Brown]

I'll wait to upgrade until I see that vbulletin.com has converted this site from v4 to vb5 and I get a chance to see how it really works on their fully converted site instead of an nearly empty demo ...

[Rik Brown]

Trevor:

Thank you for your reply.

1) I've got "Blog This Post" enabled in Options -> vBulletin Blog: General Options
2) For the usergroup, the closest thing...

[Rik Brown]

I must be going blind... I can't find the Usergroup option that controls who can "Blog This Post." It is working for some usergroups but not one that I'm trying to change.

Does...

[Rik Brown]

CvP:

I was hoping that I might have missed something. I'll give your suggestion a try.

Thanks. -- Rik

[Rik Brown]

Is there a way to set permissions for user profiles by usergroup so that Banned user or new user usergroup profiles cannot be viewed by public users while all other profiles are public (unless fields...

[Rik Brown]

Andy: I'll check into that. But wouldn't reading images out of the database be slower than serving images from disk? Thanks. -- Rik

[Rik Brown]

Dustin:

Thank you for looking into this. I reversed primary and secondary status. Then I ran admincp -> Maintenance -> Update User Title & Ranks. There was no change.
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[Rik Brown]

I've setup myself with two user records of which both have administrator permissions. However, I want to have the 2nd user record to not show me as an administrator in my profile and messaging so that...

[Rik Brown]

Andy: I agree, except that I need to share them with another program not directly associated with vBulletin, but part of our website. Thanks, again. -- Rik

[Rik Brown]

Mark.B:

Good advice. I'm planning to write to the activitystream table and it appears that the activitystreamtype table pulls activity text strings from that table. If I know that it is OK...

[Rik Brown]

cloferba:

Ah-ha! I don't know how many times I looked at that page without noticing the title. I just thought I was looking at directory definitions and not actual movement into those directories....

[Rik Brown]

Is it OK to add our own additional rows to the activitystreamtype table?

Or would that mess up vbulletin?

Thanks. -- Rik

[Rik Brown]

Andy:

I see that the User Picture Storage Type is shown as being "served from the database". But there isn't an option there to change that.

Also, in Admin CP ->...