Ban members from certain categories?

[dylanh724 (dh)]

Most of our forum is pretty general. However, one part is a “forum game”. If you get caught cheating, you get banned from playing. However, we can’t actually ban them from that specific category … or can we? It’s getting hard to moderate.

EDIT: A workaround, I made a group to store the people suspended from a certain category. However, it would be great if I could natively ban people from certain categories (with the see/create/reply permission options).

[tobiaseigen]

I think the only way to do this would be to create a group that includes everyone who is allowed to be in the category.

It would be nice to have a negative category permission available on category security settings, e.g. “Cannot create/reply/see”. But that does not exist now.

[Falco]

This is 100% covered by groups, just remove the cheaters from the game group and they can’t access the category anymore.

[dylanh724 (dh)]

@Falco

This is 100% covered by groups, just remove the cheaters from the game group and they can’t access the category anymore.

So default put everyone in a “game” group, then REMOVE them as they are suspended? Interesting

[Iceman]

Disculpa la necromancia, pero este es el primer resultado al buscar y otros temas (enlazados abajo) están cerrados o no son tan claros en cuanto a la pregunta.

Siguiendo la lógica expuesta aquí y en temas similares, parece que la mejor manera es añadir “todos” a un cierto grupo y luego eliminar de dicho grupo a los usuarios que quieres “prohibir” de una categoría, ya que no tenemos una opción para eliminar el permiso de “ver” de los grupos, solo añadir.

Esto parece bastante lógico, pero digamos que tu instancia tiene 5k usuarios, ¿tienes que añadirlos todos a mano? ¿Y seguir actualizándolo cada vez que se une un nuevo usuario? No estoy seguro de si existe algún “truco” como “@todos” al añadir usuarios a un grupo, no parece que exista.

¿Hay una mejor manera y me la he perdido?

Gracias.

Otros temas relacionados:

Can I make some Topics in a Category which only certain Groups can see and participate in?

Is this possible? I have searched for the answer to this and I have decided that this is ‘likely’ not possible right now but I want to be sure. Could it be done with a simple plugin (vs a complex plugin that only an expert could write)? I do not want to make a Category which only certain Groups can see and participate in. Also, a PM is not what I am looking for.

New category permission - "cannot see"/"exclude"

Continuing the discussion from Suspend as way to expire membership: After suggesting to another user that instead of suspending a user they could put them in a group and change category permissions. I recently came across my own use case for this, where I needed to add some users to my instance and only give them access to one category. It does not seem like there is an easy way to do so, without modifying the permissions for every other category, and putting all other users in their own grou…

Negative group permissions

Does anyone have any ideas, tips or tricks how to exclude members from a specific group from accessing a specific category? What would be the easiest way to accomplish that?

Understanding groups and category permissions

This guide explains how to manage category visibility and user permissions using groups in Discourse. Required user level: Administrator Groups and category permissions are crucial for managing access and content creation within your Discourse community. This guide will help you understand how to use these features effectively. Summary Category permissions control visibility and user actions Permissions are managed through group access lists Different perm…

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Bien… No hay una buena manera de prohibir a alguien de una categoría. No ocurre a menudo. Por lo general, si quieres prohibir a alguien, es de todas partes. Podrías, en la consola de rails, añadir a todos a un grupo y luego eliminar a la persona, pero sería doloroso.

Podrías tener un plugin que añadiera a todos a un grupo y luego tuviera una configuración del sitio de usuarios que quieres que no estén en ese grupo.