Forums Update [12/26/2023]
A small little post-Christmas update whilst I de-holiday the forums!
New User Groups!
Renamed "Banned" to "Account Terminated" to be inclusive of any account that can no longer access our forums. Spammers, Duplicate Accounts, and Banned Players. Forums Moderators will be able to reference the Members Notes or Warnings to verify which type of termination has occurred.
Created a user-group for anyone who requests a PII Deletion Request, Account Deactivation Request, or otherwise wants to close their account. In compliance with GPDR, CCPA and other similar statutes all data is erased. The screen name will remain active with anonymized data and be put into this group, to prevent users who complete an erasure request cannot re-register.
Restricted Member group has been added to aide our Forums Staff in needing to continually hide members posts from being a repeat offender, even after the initial post-approval when registering. Users who are restricted may not change their screen name as frequently, always subject to post/content approval, and are ineligible for user-group promotions (Trusted/Veteran Member), etc.
Extra Duplicate Account Detection
Added 3 more layers to detect duplicate accounts, as well as additional methods for flagging them. Flagged accounts will be automatically moved to the new Restricted Member group!
Additional Logging
Additional logging has been added to sync with Discord for ease of access! (User birthdays, Support Ticket Replies, etc)
Christmas Content
Packed away the Christmas content for next year! Although by popular request, I may introduce the lights at the top of the forums for other holidays, just recolored!