Warning Improvements by Xon

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.
  • {warning_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
• Anonymize warnings and warning alerts as a particular user or as a generic 'Moderation Staff' (WarningStaff phrase).
  • Affects existing alerts and warnings.
  • Does NOT change existing conversations/direct messages
• 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.Title and 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.
• Prevent disclosure that a moderator is viewing/editing warnings to normal users
• Allow censoring warning titles for normal users via regex to remove chunks of warning titles for public consumption
  • New permission "Bypass warning title censor" to view raw warning title
• Prevent the creator of a warning deleting warnings without permission
  • New permission "Delete issued warnings"
  • Enforces that moderators must have permission to delete warnings ("Delete issued warnings" or "Delete issued warnings" )
  • By default, warnings are only viewable to the user and moderators

New Moderator permissions
 

• Delete issued warnings
• Bypass warning title censor

New Permission to control if a user can see who warned them.
 

• 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!