Another feature (again stolen from vL
) is to invisibly ban a user.
Basically, they can still post, but their posts are invisible (except to them). So they think they're still posting and everything is normal, but really they aren't.
We discussed this because of BSD (and other children) threatening to DDoS and such if they got banned. It'd be nice to be able to ban them without them knowing.
Another idea (still stolen from vL
: automatically banning IPs.
Basically, you mark a username as banned. After that, any IP the user connects with is also banned. That way, as long as they still have the cookie for the username (or even just a 'banned' cookie), changing their IP won't help.