#4129 - Reasoned bans

Identifier #4129
Issue type Feature request or suggestion
Title Reasoned bans
Status Completed
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Roadmap: v11 (custom)

Type: Spam (custom)

Handling member Chris Graham
Addon core_cns
Description Rather than banning being a binary, allow a ban to be set to the ID of configured 'scare bans'. This would be a new resource type that admins could add/edit/delete. Each scare ban can define:
- Which HTTP response to use: 403 (access denied) or 451 (unavailable for legal reasons).
- A title for the ban screen)
- A message for the ban screen, supporting some default parameters like {IP_ADDRESS}.
- An optional image for the ban screen
- An optional URL to redirect the user to


Steps to reproduce

Additional information For example, for the Pakistani spammers targeting us we may:
- Give HTTP 451
- Give a title: VIOLATION OF ORDINANCE NO. LXXII OF 2007 (THE PREVENTION OF ELECTRONIC CRIMES ACT, 2016)
- A message that says "Your account has been found in violation of Ordinance LXXII <link http://www.lawsofpakistan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/the-prevention-of-electronic-crime-act-2016.pdf>. Your account is therefore banned, pending possible legal action to the human behind {IP_ADDRESS}.

This feature is pretty flexible. It doesn't have to be used with legal arguments, it could redirect people who were banned for far-right tactics, or Islamist tactics, to something designed to deprogram people who have been radicalised.
Related to

#4128 - Automatic bans for spam based on keywords
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