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you are permitted to perform for members
View
All Members
View
all members in the board. You are presented with a
hyperlinked list of member names. You may click on
any of the names to find details of the members (homepage,
age, etc.), and as Administrator you are able to modify
these parameters. You have complete control over members,
including the ability to delete them from the forum.
Edit
Membergroups
You
may create or modify "Member Groups". Member Groups
are special groups that you can create to restrict
access to certain categories on your forum. For example,
you can create a category, where only the "test" membergroup
can access and see it.
Mailing
List
From
this menu you can send messages to all members who've
registered and entered their email addresses (not
all will, of course). You may edit the distribution
list, or send messages to all. Useful for important
update/news information. However, use sparingly, the
board doesn't have an "opt in/out" feature, and may
users may object to having messages sent to them without
their authorization.
Edit
Ban List
BidBud
provides the ability to "ban" users, to prevent people
who have violated the trust of the board by spamming,
trolling, etc. This allows you to those users who
are detrimental to your forum. As an admin, when you
view messages, you can see each user's IP address
used to post at that time. In the ban list, you simply
type that IP address in, save, and they can no longer
post from that location.
Set
Reserved Names
This
allows you to put in keywords or names that you want
to restrict people from using as a name or username.
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