Thread:Project:Support desk/One way server mute/reply

Hi!

If with "mute" you mean "the user should no longer be able to write something.", then: Yes, there is. You can use user rights (Manual:User_rights) to set up a group called "moderator" and you can give this group the right to block users. Also give all normal users the right to unblock themselves:

$wgGroupPermissions['user']['unblockself'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['moderator']['block'] = true;

Then use the special page Special:UserRights in your wiki to make users members of the moderator group.

This is one possibility. This would let the user choose when he wants to be able to write again. If you instead want your moderators to choose this, another option you might want to consider is to let your moderators not block the users indefinitely, but for a certain amount of time only. The result would then be that the block will expire automatically. And you can use the page MediaWiki:Ipboptions in your wiki to only show the moderators some of the default block times. E.g. could you take away those time intervals, which are very long hinting your moderators not to choose those.