Allow Nickname Changes for Banned Users and Apply Name Filter

[magge-faf]

Issue:

If someone is banned for a family-unfriendly nickname, then the moderator team has to permanent ban him, so he approaches the team for a rename. Otherwise, the offender would simply ignore the request for a nick change.

This creates an additional workload for the team.

Solution 1:

Allow the banned user to login into the website only be able to rename himself.

Bonus Solution 2:

A pre-check for nicknames when registering/changing, so the most common violating names are filtered. If someone is dodging that, then further actions can be taken regarding his intended malicious behavior from the moderator team.

[Brutus5000]

This is not possible in the current setup. Might be possible with the planned user control panel in the user service.

[fcaps]

to reduce the workload (and possibly the implementation complexity), i would propose to make it possible to automatically change the username in the moderator-app. we could use something like https://wordcounter.net/random-word-generator to generate the new username and send a mail to the user.

Bonus: he also will be blocked for x days to not change it as a small punishment.
btw. is a banned name still visible in the "name-history"?

yeah, moving this issue to the user-service would be nice.

[magge-faf]

Force-Renaming is already possible in the Moderator Client aka Mordor. The name-history is still there and can be searched, which is a nice QOL.

However, if a Moderator force-changes a nick, the offender cannot login anymore with his old nick (only email) and he gets confused why it does not work. That is unfortunately not a helpful approach, because they will still ask the Moderator Team why they cannot login suddenly.

Automating sending an email after force-changing their nick would be nice, but I assume this will take too much developer time and needs backend changes to make that happen.

Manually sending an email about the offender's new nick from a Moderator Member is not viable either, because this is just asking for troubles about data protection.