Still the scariest thing to me

[ZooNamedGames]

The thing that keeps scaring me the most is when I go to reload a page in my profile or something and it'll tell me I don't have permission to access it, and I end up panicking I've been banned.

Then a second later I realize, it logged me out. That's when I let out a sigh of relief as I know I can forum for another day.

Anyone else in this boat occasionally?

[Red Iron Crown]

I think the forum software limits you to two devices when staying logged in. I use two PCs regularly for forum stuff and occasionally a third one, if I use the third one then one of the others will need to be logged in again next time I use it. Are you by chance using the forums on more than two devices?

For the record, banning a person does not prevent them from logging in.  

[r4pt0r]

25 minutes ago, Red Iron Crown said:

I think the forum software limits you to two devices when staying logged in. I use two PCs regularly for forum stuff and occasionally a third one, if I use the third one then one of the others will need to be logged in again next time I use it. Are you by chance using the forums on more than two devices?

For the record, banning a person does not prevent them from logging in.  

Can semi confirm, if I log in on my phone at work, i have to re-log in on my desktop when i get home and vice versa.

Edited August 15, 2016 by r4pt0r

[ZooNamedGames]

2 hours ago, Red Iron Crown said:

I think the forum software limits you to two devices when staying logged in. I use two PCs regularly for forum stuff and occasionally a third one, if I use the third one then one of the others will need to be logged in again next time I use it. Are you by chance using the forums on more than two devices?

For the record, banning a person does not prevent them from logging in.  

Ah ok, that makes sense. Good to know.

Then bans prevent posts? Never been banned from this forum software (and I hope that I never will be!).

[Red Iron Crown]

1 minute ago, ZooNamedGames said:

Then bans prevent posts? Never been banned from this forum software (and I hope that I never will be!).

As I understand it a ban prevents posts and PMs, but you can still follow threads and users. That's for a regular temporary ban, might be different for a permaban (those are very infrequent anyway).

[ZooNamedGames]

8 minutes ago, Red Iron Crown said:

As I understand it a ban prevents posts and PMs, but you can still follow threads and users. That's for a regular temporary ban, might be different for a permaban (those are very infrequent anyway).

Ah ok, that's at least a very nice solution. Prevents any additional problems whilst allowing them to view the community.

I don't think I've ever received a temporary ban... I've always had occasional infractions but that's one I do not recall. Ah well, probably for the best I don't.

[legoclone09]

On 8/15/2016 at 6:54 AM, Red Iron Crown said:

As I understand it a ban prevents posts and PMs, but you can still follow threads and users. That's for a regular temporary ban, might be different for a permaban (those are very infrequent anyway).

When I had the temporary permaban a year ago, vBulletin said that I couldn't access anything at all.

[Red Iron Crown]

On 9/26/2016 at 1:31 AM, legoclone09 said:

When I had the temporary permaban a year ago, vBulletin said that I couldn't access anything at all.

IPS works a bit differently in that regard.

[Frybert]

On 8/15/2016 at 8:54 AM, Red Iron Crown said:

As I understand it a ban prevents posts and PMs, but you can still follow threads and users. That's for a regular temporary ban, might be different for a permaban (those are very infrequent anyway).

 

On 9/25/2016 at 11:01 PM, legoclone09 said:

When I had the temporary permaban a year ago, vBulletin said that I couldn't access anything at all.

 

6 minutes ago, Red Iron Crown said:

IPS works a bit differently in that regard.

Under the current software we can restrict posting privileges without resorting to an outright ban. An outright ban will still result in inability to access the forum.  

[legoclone09]

11 minutes ago, Frybert said:

Under the current software we can restrict posting privileges without resorting to an outright ban. An outright ban will still result in inability to access the forum.  

Ah, OK.

[Rath]

This is the best forum.  We have such a good community, we don't know what happens when you get banned.  Think about that.

[TheDestroyer111]

On 8/15/2016 at 4:42 AM, ZooNamedGames said:

The thing that keeps scaring me the most is when I go to reload a page in my profile or something and it'll tell me I don't have permission to access it, and I end up panicking I've been banned.

Then a second later I realize, it logged me out. That's when I let out a sigh of relief as I know I can forum for another day.

Anyone else in this boat occasionally?

This is called auto-log-out and it happens for me also when I stay logged in for the whole day.

[goldenpeach]

It does happen to me sometime.

And when I'm very tired(as in: too tired to have (decent) reasoning) and I try to go in some moderator-only parts of the forum, I think something like: "oh my god! They fired me and didn't tell me yet!!!!"

And a few seconds later, I realize I'm just not logged in and I go to bed as I realize how tired I am.

[ZooNamedGames]

42 minutes ago, goldenpeach said:

It does happen to me sometime.

And when I'm very tired(as in: too tired to have (decent) reasoning) and I try to go in some moderator-only parts of the forum, I think something like: "oh my god! They fired me and didn't tell me yet!!!!"

And a few seconds later, I realize I'm just not logged in and I go to bed as I realize how tired I am.

If they modded me, I'd likely do the same thing.

[Rath]

I wonder if I would experience that?  Pls can I have mod?  For "Scientific Purposes".  %100.