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Bans and Warnings

Bans and Warnings are another cool feature of VyHub. They make sure you are able to enforce rules on your server and make it also more transparent for the players. Your player can always see their current warnings and bans on your VyHub instance. There they are, for example, also able to protest a ban.

Warnings

Warnings are a way to let users know that they did something wrong, without banning them. You can configure in the settings, after how many warning a ban gets issued.

You can also integrate the Warning System with other plugins that automatically issue warnings.

Attributes

Attribute Description
Serverbundle Serverbundle the warning is targeting and where the ban is then created

Add / Edit

Warnings can be added and edited through the designated warning page.

Warning Settings

You can find further warning configurations in the settings.

Attribute Description
Warning Time To Live How many days a warning is considered as active
Number of warning till automatic bans How many active warnings it requires for a user to get banned (0 to disable automatic bans)
Length of automatic ban How long (minutes) a user will be banned if the warning threshold has been reached

Bans

Bans are targeting a user in one specific serverbundle. Global Bans across all serverbundles are also possible, by leaving the serverbundle field blank.

Attributes

Attribute Description
Length [Optional] Length of the ban (empty for lifetime ban)
Serverbundle [Optional] Serverbundle the ban is targeting (empty for global ban)

Add / Edit

Bans can be added and edited through the designated Bans page.

Ban Settings

You can find further ban configurations in the settings.

Attribute Description
Ban Protest URL [Optional] Target URL when user protest a ban

Protests

Users can create ban protests for active bans. By default, Ban protests are shown as a ticket. There can only be one open protest and a maximum of three total protests per ban.
You can set a Ban Protest URL in the settings. Instead of creating a ticket, users are redirected to this site.

The button is disabled, when the Ticket-System is disabled and when there is no Protest-Ban URL set.

Max ban length

You can assign a maximum ban length to groups. A user can then only create bans of the length the maximum ban length property of the group with the highest permission level.

Website Bans

Players can be banned from your VyHub website as well. Just add them to the Banned (Website) group. The group prevents users from using the shop, creating tickets and posting in the forum. The 3 relevant negative properties are shop_use, ticket_create, forum_post.