Since YaBB is built to encourage and facilitate an active community of users, it comes with several tools to assist Administrators in the management of Members. To access these controls, ensure you are logged in as an Administrator and enter your "Admin Center". Once inside, look for the section in the sidebar menu titled "Member Controls".
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From your Member Controls section on the Admin Center sidebar, click on the link titled "Add Member". This new page will give you a simple registration form that will allow you to add a Member without having to logout. Simply fill out this form with the new Member's User Name, Password and e-Mail.
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Note that IP addresses, e-mail addresses, and User Names banned from the Ban Member page are flagged as being permanent bans.
ADMINISTRATOR TIP: You may also block a range of IP addresses by only entering in the first few octets of the address. For example, entering the IP as: 192.168. would block every IP address from 192.168.0.0 through 192.168.255.255. Enter only 1 IP address per line.
Member Groups give you the ability to assign a group or classification to a Member. These groups can then be used to grant special privileges and/or access to your forum or simply be used for the fun of it. If you would like to create a Member Group, enter your Admin Center and find the section titled "Member Controls" as described above then click on the link "Member Groups".
This new page will then show you the four Member Group types.
To create a new Member Group, click on the link titled "Add Group" next to either "Post Independent" or "Post Dependent" Member Groups. This will bring up a new page with a form to add new groups.
ADMINISTRATOR TIP: YaBB comes with a Post-Dependent Member Group called "YaBB Newbies" that has a mimimum Post Count of -1. This is in place to automatically assign new registering Members to a group. A new Member starts with a Post Count of -1, so if you delete this Group or change the minimum Post Count, your new Members will not be able to post or use PMs until you manually put them in a Group. You may edit the name of the Group, stars, or colors with no effects on new Members.
ADMINISTRATOR TIP: A good way to customize your YaBB forum is to assign names to your Post Dependent groups that relate to your forum's niche.
YaBB gives you the ability to select what administrative functions you wish to entrust to your Global Moderators. You may choose these access permission in the Admin Center under General Controls in the Global Moderator Access section. Moving your mouse over each action option gives you a brief description of what each option allows. Your Global Moderators should have a clear understanding of what levels of access you are giving them, and nothing can communicate that better than you, the Administrator, discussing it with them.
The most important options are listed as three selections at the top of the page. Note that access to the Admin Center does NOT necessarily mean your Global Moderators can control all the items you can see in the Admin Center. If you allow this access, you can customize the Global Moderator permissions in the list of actions below.
Choosing Editing the Profile (but not the Admin Edits) will allow the Global Moderator to change passwords, e-Mail addresses, and all other options in the User's Profile (except Admin Edits). Note: Global Moderators cannot edit or modify any Administrator Profile.
Choosing the Admin Edits option will allow Global Moderators to change a user's Post Count, Position, and Member Group(s). Note: Global Moderators cannot edit or modify Administrator Admin Edits, nor can they "promote" other users to Global Moderators or Administrators.
ADMINISTRATOR TIP: In most cases, actions you do NOT select for the Global Moderator will not even be visible to them in the Admin Center, however this is not always the case. For example, if you allow Global Moderators to VIEW members but not DELETE members, the screen they view members on also shows checkboxes and a button to delete members, but they will not work for them. If the Global Moderator attempts to delete members without permission, it will result in an error message. A Global Moderator may think that something isn't working right, that this is an error or bug, but it is not. The program is following the level of permissions you granted them.
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