How to Ban or Remove a user from your community

How to Ban or Remove a user from your community, How to remove a user from your community 

There are two ways to ban a member from the community. One is from the homepage itself and another is from Community Settings (Back-end).
 

Banning member from Member Management

 1) Go to the dropdown on top right hand corner where your name appears.

2) Click on Member Management
3) Select the email address you would like to ban and from Action tab select Ban Member option.

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4) While banning a member you have 3 options 

  1. Ban - This option will ban selected members from your community but keep all their personal data, ideas, and comments in the system. This option can be reversed.

  2. Forget Member - This will remove all selected members' personal data from the system but keep their ideas and comments. This option is not reversible. (Use with caution.)

  3. Forget Member and Submissions - This will remove all selected members' personal data, ideas, and comments from the system. This option is not reversible. (Use with caution.)

5) Type 'BAN' and complete the process by clicking on Confirm.

The Banned member will not be able to visit or participate in the community till he is set as 'Approved member' again by the administrator.

'Forget Member and Submissions' cannot be undone and all the data of the member will be permanently deleted. User will need to register again.


Only the administrator of the community can ban a member from the community.
To unban the banned member simply follow the given steps:

1) Go to the dropdown on top right hand corner where your name appears.

2) Click on Member Management >> Search Bar
3) Select Banned from the drop-down, then select Yes and search. A list of all banned members will be populated.

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4) Click on the email address of the banned member which opens up the details of the member. You will see the Current Status as Banned.

5) Change the 'Banned' status to 'Member' and 'Save changes'. The member will be able to participate in community activity again.

 

If the 'Forget member' or 'Forget member & Submissions' option was selected while banning the member, you cannot un-ban the member. He will need to be re-invited or register again.

Last Updated: June 29, 2023