Warning Improvements by Xon 2.11.5

A Collection of improvements to XF's warning system

Warning; All user group titles will be visible if they are applied in a Warning Action

• Warnings/Bans with time-based expiry are now be removed on the 1st visit after the expiry time, rather than needing to wait for the hourly cron task to run.

• Sortable warnings with categories

  • Drag & drop

  • Permissions per category

  • Per-category warning actions, allowing warning actions to be only triggered from points in that category

• Updated front-end using smart select menu, or radio boxes

• User Criteria for warning points

• Allow users to view their own warnings, and find which posts where warned.

• Option to send an alert to a user when they receive a warning.

• Allows the Custom Warning to be customized like other warnings

• Copy Warning title/text automatically to the public warning action field.

• Allow non-custom Warnings to have their Titles edited, opt-in

• Use XenForo's AJAX handling on errors instead of breaking the current form.

• Optional ability to "unsticky" the Warn button on the warning dialog

• Allow the default content action to be set

• Control defaults for user notification

  • Alerts

  • Lock PMs by default

  • Send warning conversations by default

  • Allow invite into warning conversations by default

• Option to require a note when entering a warning

  • and enforce a minimum length

• Ability to see warning actions applied to an account from the front-end

  • users may see warning actions agains thier account

  • automatically roll-up identical warning actions to show the latest expiry

  • per-group moderator permissions for editing/viewing all/disable summarization.

• Additional conversation substitution replaceable for the warning conversation on submit.

  • {points}

  • {warning_title}

  • {warning_link}

  • {userId}

• Option to force new conversation email to be sent on a warning conversation.

  • Will send even if they are banned!

  • Always sends full conversation text.

  • This can ignore conversation privacy options.

• Automatically extend default warning expires based on warning point total thresholds. Not accumulative, only the last matching threshold applies

• Anonymise warnings and warning alerts as a particular user or as a generic 'Moderation Staff' (WarningStaff phrase).

  • Affects Alerts and Warnings.

  • Does NOT change conversations.

• Round up warning expiry time to the nearest hour to avoid confusion over delays caused by XenForo task system's hourly schedule.

• Option to log a warning summary to a thread. Phrase: Warning_Summary_Message, can use BBCode

• New Warning Action actions triggered for the last valid warning action:

  • Post a new thread. Phrases Warning_Thread_Message & Warning_Thread_Title, can use BBCode.

  • Reply to an existing thread. Phrases Warning_Thread_Message, can use BBCode.

New Permission to control if a user can see who warnedthem.

• View Warning Issuer.

New moderator permissions for viewing warning actions.

• View Warning Actions

• Edit Warning Actions

• Don't Summarize Warning Actions

Respects the "View Warning Details" permission for allowing a given user group to view warning details on everyone.

Giving "View Warning Details" allows users to view the 'private' warning note, and allows them to see who issued the warning!