XenForo 1.3 also contains a number of changes and improvements to help moderators. Let's look at some of them... Reporting a User While this isn't related to an action a moderator would take themselves, users can now be reported directly from their profile. This can be used for users that haven't posted any content, but may have an inappropriate avatar, signature, or other value. Thread Moderator Action History Moderators can now view all moderator-level actions taken in a thread from a new option in the Thread Tools menu: This will display an overlay like this: Moving Posts to an Existing Thread When moving posts via inline moderation, they can now be moved to an existing thread by simply providing the URL to that thread: This URL is processed with the same system that processes incoming requests, so it correctly handles URL modifications using route filters. Copying Posts Individual posts can now be duplicated via inline moderation: As you can see, the options are similar to moving posts, so you can create a new thread or copy them to an existing one. Limited User Editing You can now give moderators access to edit a limited amount of user information. This includes: Custom titles Location Occupation Home page About Signature Avatar And selected custom fields The goal here is simply to allow moderators to remove inappropriate content. Moderators can edit the text of the fields as necessary, although they can only remove a specified avatar. Each custom field now has an option to control whether moderators can edit the field value. Shared IP Checking To detect if a user had registered more than one account, we sometimes found that moderators were simply running the spam cleaner with only the "check IPs" option selected. This was not ideal and often not available as an option, so we've now added an option to check for shared IPs via a user's profile page: This brings up an overlay that's very similar to the version shown in the spam cleaner: Additional Warning Action Options The approach for defining a warning action has been modified: Most significantly, all warning actions can now be specified to only run for a specific time period. Previously, only bans could be run for a length of time; groups or discouragement were applied while above the points threshold. While this might not seem like a big change, the most significant power lies in adding a user to a specific group. Using the XenForo permission system, you can remove specific permissions from users that have crossed your warning thresholds. This is the use case that Never was designed for. You can now create a warning action hierarchy such as: Manually approve posts for 1 day Manually approve posts for 3 days Read only for 3 days Read only for 1 week Ban for 1 week Ban permanently Previously, you would have had to do quite a lot of this manually. From a development perspective, the system for making temporary user changes has been designed to be very generic and usable in other ways. I'm sure there will be some very cool uses of this system once 1.3 is out. Until next time...