Need ability to ban one or more users from a category

[MentalNomad]

@pfaffman

Suspend the person and if they later continue to be a bad person, kick them out.

No, because, as Iceman and Gunnar said, these people are “Ideal” and “valued” in other categories.

If they were willing to just drop-kick them, they wouldn’t be here looking for ways to accommodate them.

I have a similar/different situation; we have a Discourse that belongs to a club by whose rules they must have access to at least some of the Categories (legally required to be able to access.) But we still want to be able to exclude problem individuals from certain Categories.

I opened this:

Allow for Banning from freely joinable Groups

We’re looking at using Groups to allow access to semi-private Categories. These Categories are to be held to higher behavior & moderation standards than the primary Discourse. We’d rather set the Groups to be self-joinable, but the Owners & Mods need to be able to ban people from the Groups if they don’t abide the ground rules. (They would still have access to the common areas of the Discourse.) Since we don’t see a “Ban” option, we’ll have to have the Owners manually administer the membershi…

… but I’m still open to other possible solutions.