How to disable PM reporting for a specific membergroup?

[PLAYBOY]

I want to disable PM reporting and message reporting feature of a specific membergroup so they won`t be able to report anything to the admins

Can someone help me on this please?

[Illori]

it is a global setting, it is not per member group by default. so you would need a mod to do what you want, i dont know if one already exists.

[PLAYBOY]

I`m not a coder and I`m not good at those things but can`t we code it into that membergroups` permissions to just disable reporting? either as an option or in the file where it will always disable it for that membergroup

If X member group
Hide Report button

type of thing. It may look stupid but I feel like it shouldn`t be that hard to do

[Kindred]

I just love when people who know nothing about coding insist that something must be simple....

[efk]

I saw this question few months ago and was declined or marked as impossible, but will be really good to have it in permissions and to give to people with some amount of posts.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

It is not a function that was designed to be used as a privilige, it was designed as a safety feature for the users. You could quite easily hide the functionality for a specific group, but not actually disable it.

[PLAYBOY]

It is not a function that was designed to be used as a privilige, it was designed as a safety feature for the users. You could quite easily hide the functionality for a specific group, but not actually disable it.

Well apperently it`s not that easy to hide that button as they said above. But I still think there must be an easy fix for this.

Hiding that functionality for a specific membergroup is all I`m asking for

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

I'm not infront of a computer right now, but should be possible to just add to the existing if statement for showing the link. Now it checks if the functionality is enabled, just add a check for membergroup. I think.

[Arantor]

If they have the link it would still work. Need to do more than just hide the link.

[PLAYBOY]

If they have the link it would still work. Need to do more than just hide the link.

Even hiding would be helpful for now though

[Arantor]

I'm curious, what's the rationale for doing this? If it because you have a few troublesome members, disallow them from receiving in the first place... PMs are a privilege not a right.

[PLAYBOY]

I'm curious, what's the rationale for doing this? If it because you have a few troublesome members, disallow them from receiving in the first place... PMs are a privilege not a right.

I`m sure there`re few usages of this for different people but my rationale behind this is that when I create a membergroup which I call "watchers" and they can`t participate in the forum in anyway, they can`t write a post, edit anything, send a pm etc. but they can still report the PMs that are sent to them and add whatever message they want in those reports to be delivered directly to all admins. I want to have a membergroup which can`t interact with the forum at all because they are "watchers" and I have a specific use for that group.

[Arantor]

If they can't interact, why can they read PMs?

[PLAYBOY]

If they can't interact, why can they read PMs?

So they will want to interact. Let`s focus on the topic I`d say.

I`m just looking for a way to either hide or disable the PM reporting for a specific membergroup. It really shouldn`t be so hard to do for a person who knows coding

[Arantor]

Putting aside whether it is easy (and people who don't understand something should never try to judge how difficult it is), I don't just give out solutions to everything because people ask. I fundamentally don't believe what you're doing is as ethical as you think, and possibly illegal in some jurisdictions.

Also, restricting people to incentivise them to expand their account rarely works as well as people think.

[PLAYBOY]

and people who don't understand something should never try to judge...

and then...

I fundamentally don't believe what you're doing is as ethical as you think, and possibly illegal in some jurisdictions.

I don`t know what you think but it sounds like you think I do something really bad or illegal or something. You have no idea how I manage my forum since 2006. What`s my forum is about or which country or anything about it. So Let`s not judge it so quick and again let`s focus on the topic. You don`t have to help. That`s fine. I respect that. I appreciate your involvement in the topic

[Gary]

He's not being specific about whether you and your members are doing anything illegal, it's a generalised statement that'd be applicable to everybody.

[PLAYBOY]

He's not being specific about whether you and your members are doing anything illegal, it's a generalised statement that'd be applicable to everybody.

Ummm you may want to read it again because it says "you"

what you're doing is as ethical as you think,

[Kindred]

IN English "you" is both the specific and the unspecific pronoun...


However -- we generally don't just hand out code - especially to people who don't seem to understand even the basics about coding --   we try to understand the reason and the ultimate goal in order to actually help rather than just going with (quite often, flawed) assumptions.

In this case, I, like Arantor, think that your initial premise is flawed to begin with.