Why Does A Suspension Prevent Access?

[ouimetnick]

How come when someone (me in this case) receives a suspension, access to reading the forums is blocked?

When an account is suspended or even Banned, why not allow the user to stay logged in and have basic access to read the forums instead of logging out? Perhaps those who are suspended or banned could even still take part in liking/reacting to posts, but not reply to posts/crest new threads.

I had to access for forums in private mode for the duration of my suspension just to read any part of the forum. It seems excessive to ban or suspend someone and prevent them from having read only access. Is this a limitation of the forum software or intentional on Arn’s part?

 

[cmaier]

How come when someone (me in this case) receives a suspension, access to reading the forums is blocked?

When an account is suspended or even Banned, why not allow the user to stay logged in and have basic access to read the forums instead of logging out? Perhaps those who are suspended or banned could even still take part in liking/reacting to posts, but not reply to posts/crest new threads.

I had to access for forums in private mode for the duration of my suspension just to read any part of the forum. It seems excessive to ban or suspend someone and prevent them from having read only access. Is this a limitation of the forum software or intentional on Arn’s part?

What difference does it make? Log out or browse in a private tab. Whether it’s intentional or not, seems like the people responsible for the forum software would have more important things to worry about, since there is an easy work-around.

 

[ouimetnick]

What difference does it make? Log out or browse in a private tab. Whether it’s intentional or not, seems like the people responsible for the forum software would have more important things to worry about, since there is an easy work-around.

Just a question. Not the end of the world, it’s not a big dead to either log out or use private browsing, but I’m curious to know if it’s a forum limitation or intentional.

 

[cmaier]

Just a question. Not the end of the world, it’s not a big dead to either log out or use private browsing, but I’m curious to know if it’s a forum limitation or intentional.

Seems like if they didn’t do it this way it would cause lots of issues. For example. When you browse, what happens if someone clicks on your profile? Should the “last seen viewing...” indicator be updated based on what you are looking at? Maybe you were suspended for fighting with user X, and now you can be seen lurking around looking at user X’s profile or user x’s posts.

 

[Weaselboy]

How come when someone (me in this case) receives a suspension, access to reading the forums is blocked?

https://forums.macrumors.com/cookie-wipe.php

Clear any MacRumors cookies and you will have read only access. If you are unsure how to do that, you can just use this link to do it for you.

 

[arn]

The default banning system in Xenforo prevents read access. I don’t think that entirely makes sense except for spammers, but that’s how it works. I had thought about how to do it differently but it would require some modifications.

arn