Quote from: botany on December 12, 2015, 04:59:57 AM

Is the ban going to be applied manually or through the autoban button? Both are perma-bans.
The results might be different based on that.
If you asked a staff (and not an admin) to ban an account, it is probably an autoban.

Quote from: BadBear on December 10, 2015, 04:45:15 PM

There are 2 types of bans.

Autobans. Isn't what it sounds like, it means someone pressed the ban button, but it's automatically carried out, as opposed to be manually entered. Though there is a mod or two running scripts because of the spammers. This results in the message You were banned by a forum moderator, email xxx. Both global mods and admins use this, so it isn't a guarantee it was a moderator, just more likely. I use autoban instead of manual bans for permanent bans because it's faster and more efficient. All bans in the modlog are autobans, and permanent.

Autobans ban the account involved only, you can still log in and do everything normally, just can't post or pm. It also adds units of evil to the IPs used, a new account created using these IPs will need to pay a fee. Units of evil increase with additional bans. Nuking is essentially an autoban+deletion of posts.

Manual bans are only available to admins, and are generally configured the same way as above, though it's possible to increase the scope of the ban to include things like registering from certain emails/providers, ips, subnets, hostnames, etc. Can also add multiple accounts to the same ban. It's also possible to prevent banned users from logging in at all using the banned account, this will prevent them from being able to read the forum and access pm's too though, so I rarely use it. These result in the customized reason for the ban+duration, insubstantial posts or whatever.

Well that mostly answers my question.

I would want the lightest permaban possible (can do everything but post and pm) so an autoban would be fine, except for the units of evil. Since those add units of evil, I would prefer if the account was manually banned.

I will pm BB and theymos about this tomorrow, thanks for the help Botany.