making member invisible to others
Using Jamroom
Here's the thing Michael- this member has not misbehaved on my site, and they have genuine interest in my site's subject. However, their comments felt a bit odd to me, including their odd PMs to me... so I dug a little online to find out more about them. I found out that they themselves admitted to "harassing" people online and getting kicked off sites, and also they had posted a pretty gross 'kink' video elsewhere online publicly.
My members tend to be seniors and many of them are overly friendly and naive online. They feel safe on my site, and i feel I should protect them a little from becoming 'friends' by interacting with this person.
Yet, I don't want to just boot this person off and ban them, or obviously restrict them and make them angry... because I've had to endure in years past disgruntled members who turned to stalking me online after I removed them. Remember, this person wrote eleswhere that they had harassed others online in the past. Putting their comments on 'approval' or preventing them from commenting would make it obvious I was muzzling them.
As i've set things now, this person does not notice anything is different- they can post and comment and create content freely on my site.... but no one else sees their stuff except me and my moderators. So, instead of getting angry at me for restricting their ability to post stuff, instead they just think nobody is interested in responding to their comments. I'm hoping they just get bored by my 'unfriendly site' and go away eventually.
Then once i see they've not logged in for say 6-12 months, I can feel safer quietly deleting their account and banning their IP range and email.
Thanks for the pointer on how to remove the comment_text completely in the template. I may have to do that in the end (and put it back when he's gone maybe). BUT I swear there was a (non-template, non-code) setting somewhere that gave me 3 options: to either show a long sentence quote in the Notification emails, or no quote at all, or a very short quote. I recall choosing the long quote. I'm hoping to find that setting again and choose the short quote instead. Or, switch off the quote feature there in that easy setting, and set it back later. I just cannot find where that setting is. D'oh!
I'm also assuming there's no easy way to stop other members from receiving email notices whenever this *particular* person posts a comment on their stuff. Since the member is invisible to others otherwise, it'd be so great to not have their comments trigger notifications as well. But I won't turn off notifications for all members.
Thanks
