User Profile: hide profile of banned user about laravel.io HOT 6 CLOSED

Perhaps we can add a large red stamp that says "Banned" ;)

On 22 Sep 2013, at 21:10, Shawn McCool [email protected] wrote:

In some ways it sucks, but it probably needs to happen anyway.

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My concern is that the user has unfortunate content (which is why they're banned) and we don't want to propagate it through Google.

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well why not remove the questionable content but leave the profile and stick the banned stamp on it as diesvints suggested
and only remove the actual porn spammers

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I really doubt that we'll have porn spammers as they'd have to first authenticate through GitHub.

But, I think that the suggestions from @driesvints and @taftse are appropriate. Anyone have proposals on how best to approach the concept of banning users?

My first thought is that there might be escalating time-oriented bans for behavior problems. First strike is a day, second is a week, third is a month. This prevents users from having to create a new GitHub account to get back in.

Additionally, users are probably less likely to be a pain in the ass in some small capacity due to the fact that their whole GitHub profile is publicized.

Normally, I wouldn't want to put much thought into this sort of thing until it was needed. But, due to the scale of the current laravel.io and the Laravel community. I know that this is going to come up. We're going to need a solid policy in place when it does.

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Isn't it possible to send a custom Response::view with a HTTP response code that discourages google from indexing the page, but still allows normal users to browse normally?

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Just a simple ban with the ability to hide any of their posts for the duration of said ban? So, for example, a reply on a discussion would simply be replaced with a "User X has been banned."

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