How do you block ad free for one person?

[vank]

Normally my family site can function on the smallest plan but someone is coming in and using 4K per day and now it won't last and I want to turn off ad free just for one person. It is essential.

[Scott]

vank - unfortunately this is not possible. Sorry.

I would recommend PMing the member, and if they don't comply then take moderation steps, such as issuing a warning, or disabling their account for 1 day, etc. You can decide on the escalation path that works best for you.

[vank]

Oh no it is a family member. I think there will be troubles. Eek

[Scott]

vank - well this should be easier then, I would hope? If you can explain what they are doing is depleting the ad-free, and affecting the forum experience for the members.

[vank]

No it will cause family rivalry if we take mod action or even pm about refreshing and spam.

Now not sure what to do.

[Scott]

vank - the only other option I can think of is if this member is put on a PB+ subscription, it wouldn't affect the forum's ad-free plan.

(And the forum is only disabling ads for members, right? Not guests as well?)


And by the way, the option to turn off ad-free for a member is already labeled as a Feature Request.

[vank]

Maybe I think it sounds good

But if he figures it out he will delete account.

[vank]

yarn

I want to use your idea, but can you pm instead so no one is mad

[bigballofyarn]

Scott ,
I'm in the very early stages of brainstorming and have absolutely no idea how I would do this, but I'm going to ask anyway. Should my boyfriend or I be able to create a plugin that achieves this, would that violate the ToS in any way? I suppose it might depend on how the code is written, and since I don't know how I'd go about creating this yet, I cannot share any master blueprints. Since it's being considered as a feature request, I would hope that a potential plugin would not violate any rules, but I figured I'd ask before I even try to make something. If I do create something that can successfully achieve this, should I run the plugin by the staff before testing it on my forum?

[Scott]

bigballofyarn - to the best of my knowledge this cannot be done, either because it's not possible or would violate the developer guidelines.