Question kunena 2 ban system questions

when giving someone a ban through kunena, it seems that after the site ban expiry, the user was not reactivated. Do we have to manually unban people?

not sure if this also happens for a 'forum only' ban? do we need to manually activate these and if so how is this done?

Theoretically (and it remains to be proved) if you "sin bin" someone for a certain period of time, after the time has elapsed, the banned user can then use your forum again. I've never had any requests from people I've sin-binned to reactivate their accounts.

In kunena you can do two types of bans - forum and site

If you do a site ban it blocks them in Joomla. So if you put an expiry on the ban, when that expiry happens it does not seem to unblock the joomla user though. So the user remains banned from the site.

is this a bug or is this how it is meant to happen? seems like a bug to me as you would want them to automatically be unbanned after their 'sinbinning' is up.

You may be right. I really have no idea. I've asked this question before, of the moderator team, and the answer I received was this: if you want to sin-bin someone, then put an expiry date on it and after the time is up they will automatically be allowed to resume their access. I've never tried sin-binning by refusing them access to the website (hardly seems to serve any real purpose in my opinion but everyone's different). If, on the other hand, you block their account then I really don't know what happens in those circumstances.

I've never tested it (blocking a user from the site for x days); I've only ever used "ban from forum" when I want to give someone a warning. If I really want to throw 'em out, I do so with prejudice: ban from site indefinitely. So, I don't have any concrete information for you.

Perhaps you might like to participate in our Skype testers chat where you we can discuss this issue for a couple of hours?