Ban page accepts OpenID url account name as account to ban

[zvi]

Title:
Ban page accepts OpenID url account name as account to ban

Area:
ban page, journal administration

Summary:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/banusers only accepts the ext_#### form of an OpenID account as an account to ban. It should also except the url name (e.g. example.net) as an account name.

Description:
We've had a couple of support requests and a suggestion about managing deleted accounts. One of the things one can do to change how/where a deleted account appears in relationship to you is to ban it.

However, if the account in question is an OpenID account, there is no way of which I am aware for a user to discover the ext_#### account name, in order to actually do the banning. (Even if the OpenID account is active, DW has done a lot to make it unnecessary for users to be aware of that form of the account name, so I'm not sure how many users would know how to ban an active OpenID account through the ban page.)

So, I think this would make the ban page more effective with OpenID account users.

Poll #1685 Ban page accepts OpenID url account name as account to ban

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
38 (100.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
0 (0.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

I was about to make the same suggestion. I'm glad I did a search on the tags here.

So, how do I ban an Open ID user with the ext_#### format that you mentioned here? :)

[denise]

In the console, "ban_set ext_###" and hit execute.

[jumpuphigh]

Is the ### the whole Open ID username?

[denise]

Nope; it's the backend version of the name, with the numbers assigned sequentially. Used to be possible to get it on the OpenID profile page, but we've changed that over to the url version; I don't actually know where you can get it now, since I've lost track. (Ideally, you shouldn't ever need it, but that's what this bug is for!)

You can also ban an OpenID account from the profile, or with the contextual popup hover menu, or (I think) when deleting a comment left by the user. It's just not that easy to ban them pre-emptively right now.

[jumpuphigh]

Ok. Cool. I was wanting to pre-emptively ban someone. I'll worry about it if it becomes an issue.

Thanks for your help! Hope your night is going well.

[denise]

NP! This is one of the few cases where our improvements have actually made it harder to do some things *G*