eclectica

Here are the settings for all of the users on this board. They are listed in a hierarchal fashion so that the privileges and restrictions, unless otherwise noted, propagate down the list to the usergroup below it. Those settings which do not propagate down to any of the usergroups below it will be listed in yellow color. Those settings which apply to all usergroups except for Administrators and Super Moderators, will be listed in orange color.

Members of the usergroups Adminstrators, Super Moderators, Senior Members, Users Awaiting Email Confirmation, and the four banned usergroups listed at the bottom; will be displayed on the Show Groups listing. All members of usergroups except those who are Unregistered Guests and Users Awaiting Email Confirmation will show up on the Members List.

In regards to the forum viewing permissions of the various usergroups, all groups except those who are Unregistered / Not Logged In and Users Awaiting Email Confirmation can view the private subforum and calendar.


Unregistered / Not Logged In (userid=1)

• default title: Guest
• cookie session length: 30 minutes. After being inactive for that time length, all threads and forums will automatically be marked as read.
• can view forum posts in public forums
• can reply to forum threads in the filesharing subforums
• can view Members List with 100 members per page displayed, and can view members's profiles. The date of Last Visit displayed for a member will be displayed as N/A, if the member in question has a "hidden" online status on the forum.
• can view profile pictures of members
• can view Public calendar
• can not view events of others on Private calendar.
• calendar range of Public and Private calendars is from 2003 to 2012. Sunday is the first day of the week.
• Can search with a minimum of 3 characters. Search results are displayed 100 per page, with search results yielding a maximum of 5000 results. The default vBulletin file includes/searchwords.php contains a list of approximately 570 words which are not included in search results
• search floodcheck: can search the forums every 10 seconds
• can download attachments
• "hot threads" are indicated as those with either at least 500 views or 50 posts
• new poll votes do not bring threads to the top
• forum display: 50 threads per forum page
• default thread display: 25 posts per thread page
• number of pages visible in page navigator: 20
• forum archive enabled with a display setting of 10,000 threads per forum and 2,000 posts per thread

Registered (userid=2)
this is the default usergroup for those who register on the forum

• default titles:
  0-49 posts: dildo du jour
  50-99 posts: fruitcake emeritus
  100+ posts: damned mortal
• PMs are disabled
• can change default title after zero posts and zero days registered
• titles can be a maximum of 25 characters in length
• usernames can be from 2 to 20 characters in length
• allowed post length: minimum 2 (the content within quotes counts towards the minimum), to maximum 50000 characters
• posting floodcheck: 60 seconds
• Multi Quote is enabled
• Quick Reply is disabled
• Quick Edit is disabled
• Thread/Forum Read Marking Type: Database (automatic forum marking). Threads and Posts older than 90 days will be automatically marked read.
• html is disabled on the forum postings, signatures, calendar, and announcements
• can insert no more than 12 images and smilies into a post
• can post and upload 10 attachments per post with extensions (bmp doc exe gif gz htm html jpe jpeg jpg mht odb odf odg odm odp ods odt pdf php png psd rar rtf tif tiff torrent txt xml zip) with each individual attachment having a size limit of 262,144 Bytes. Attachments open in a new browser window, when clicked on. Attachment uploads are only accepted from a user's computer and not from remote URLs. Total attachments of all members on the forum can not exceed 104,857,600 Bytes space. Image attachments are not displayed inline.
• Total attachments of one user are limited to 1,048,576 Bytes total storage space.
• can start new forum threads
• can delete own posts except those that are first in a thread
• can see deletion notices of "soft deleted" threads and posts, but not the content within them
• can edit all posts up to 15 minutes after posting without "last edited by" appearing in post
• can edit thread titles up to 2880 minutes (2 days) after originally posting
• can edit posts up to 10080 minutes (7 days) after originally posting
• can delete attachments beyond post editing time limit
• can add a poll to a thread up to 60 minutes after posting
• profile pictures can be maximum 480 by 480 pixels and 131,072 Bytes. Pictures can not be animated.
• avatars can be up to 120 pixels in size and 65,536 Bytes file size, and can be animated
• signatures can be a maximum of 500 characters in length
• bbcode is enabled in signatures, but smilies are disabled, and images using [img] tags are not displayed graphically
• can vote on polls and create polls with up to 40 options
• email functions enabled: Report Bad Post, Email this Page to a Friend
• can add moderators or administrators to their Ignore List
• can add events to Public and Private calendar.
• can set thread display to have 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, or 100 posts per thread page

Senior Members (userid=7)
Registered users automatically get "promoted" to Senior Members after being members for a year and having at least 20 posts

• can Email a Member directly if the user has allowed it in the preferences.
• users can have 100 saved PMs
• maximum PM length: 50000 characters
• can send a PM to an unlimited amount of recipients
• PMs can use bbcode, smilies, and post icons. [ img ] code does not display images inline.
• PM floodcheck = 120 seconds
• PM message tracking is disabled
• can view Who's Online, but not those who are "hidden".
• Total attachments can not exceed 2,097,152 Bytes total storage space

Super Moderators (userid=5)

• can view Who's Online and IP addresses, including members who have chosen to be "hidden".
• can see board settings (but not passwords or PMs) of all members
• have no PM, posting, or searching flood checks
• can edit polls
• can edit thread titles, merge threads, merge posts, split/copy threads, and move threads
• can delete or stick/unstick all forum threads
• can open/close threads
• can view and manage "soft deleted" posts or threads, and posts or threads awaiting moderation
• can move or copy individual thread posts to another thread
• can edit or delete the post of every user
• can not mass-prune threads
• can not mass-move threads
• "last edited by" appears when editing the posts of others (if the posts are more than 15 minutes old)
• can edit the avatars and signatures of members
• can edit public calendar events
• can ban and unban members
• can post, edit, and view user notes for all users
• can make announcements

Administrators (userid=6)

• can change usernames
• can change board settings of users
• can move members to different usergroups
• can delete users
• can alter forum layout, options, and appearance

Special banned usergroups

vBulletin uses the terminology of "banned" to refer to a usergroup in which not only Administrators, but also Super Moderators can move a member into. If a user is banned then the user will be listed on the Show Groups page, which is labeled by default on the forum index page as "Forum Leaders", but on this site is given the more appropriate title of "Rogues Gallery" . Whenever the user encounters a "no permission" message on the forum, the user can determine the length of the ban as well as any reason which may be optionally given for the ban. A "no permission" message for banned users can be viewed by attempting to view something like Who's Online.

Here are the four types of banned groups I have created on this board. They have the same privileges to the forum as the regular Registered usergroup, but with the following special restrictions noted. I have highlighted what makes their particular banned group unique from the other banned groups with #ccbbff color:

1. no Post Editing (userid=11)

• can not edit own posts
• can not delete own posts
• can not be "invisible" to others in Who's Online
• Email to Friend is disabled
• can not post or edit events on Public calendar
• can not upload attachments

2. no Thread Hijacking (userid=10)

• can not reply to others' threads
• can not be "invisible" to others in Who's Online
• Email to Friend is disabled
• can not post or edit events on Public calendar
• can not upload attachments

3. pre-Moderated Posts + no Post Editing (userid=16)

• can not edit own posts
• can not delete own posts
• all posts made must be validated first by the staff
• can not be "invisible" to others in Who's Online
• Email to Friend is disabled
• can not post or edit events on Public calendar
• can not upload attachments

4. Frozen-Banned (userid=8)

• can not post, edit, or reply to threads and posts
• can not edit profile or board settings, except for email and password
• can not be "invisible" to others in Who's Online
• Email to Friend is disabled
• can not post or edit events on Public calendar
• can not upload attachments

Deletion policy for inactive members

When the user accounts of members are deleted by the administrator, all former posts made by them will remain intact with the same username, logged IP per post, and time stamp, as if made by an unregistered guest. Their PMs, avatars, attachments, registration information, staff user notes, and profile information will be gone.

I am reluctant to delete a user's account upon request, but I do so automatically after a user has not logged into his/her account for a certain amount of time. Here is the general guideline I follow for automatically deleting accounts of users. They will be deleted if:

• they have 0 posts and have not visited the forum logged into their accounts in more than 6 months.
• they have 1 post and have not visited the forum logged into their accounts in more than 1 year.
• they have 2 or more posts and have not visited the forum logged into their accounts in more than 2 years.

Additional settings and information regarding the forum

style / skin specifications
member name change log
customized templates
customized phrases

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