Banning and Unbanning Users

The Dashboard plug-in's moderation feature allowed the moderator to reject the specific blog entry. However, if the community user repeatedly writes offensive entries, the administrator can ban him from his user profile page. In the user profile page, the link Ban User is used for this purpose. The user profile page can also be accessed from Content Moderation just by clicking the user name.

If you click on this Ban User button, a confirmation dialog is displayed:

If you again select Ban user, then the user is banned. The consequences of banning are:

The user is no longer able to log into the community site. Any attempt to log in will result in the display of an error message.
If the configuration file /com/escenic/community/messaging/BanReporter.properties has been configured correctly, an e-mail is sent to the banned user. This configuration file can be used to define the sender, subject and content of the notification message. For example
```
$class=com.escenic.community.messaging.BanReporter
fromUser=username@domain.com
subject=User Banned Notification
body=This mail is to notify you that you have been banned.
```

When you have banned a user, the Ban user button displayed below the content item is replaced by an Unban user button, which you can use to restore the user's access rights:

You have to confirm this action in the same way as when banning a user: