Can I unsuspend users on Atlassian Answers too?

[David at David Simpson Apps]

I've noticed that I now have great power over other users (and myself for that matter):

With great power comes great responsibility. I've not tried this out yet, mainly for concerns that I'll suspend myself and not be able to fix it.

Is this something that I can undo if I change my mind?

[Jeremy Largman · Accepted solution]

Yes, there's a 'withdraw suspension', although if you did it to yourself you'd need my help to get back out!

Actually, I intended to hold off on opening this up, but forgot to up the karma limit (it's now at 5,000). My intention was this:

1. Fix SEO issues. Currently pages aren't getting indexed.
2. Once that happens, I expect spam to become a greater problem. For that, I would like to enable Akismet.
3. If Akisemt is working well, that's fine, we won't need the permission to suspend users. if not, I wanted to make top contributors able to suspend users. Thus the feature.

For now I upped the limit again, based on the original discussion.

[David at David Simpson Apps]

It looks like you've withdrawn this feature now as I have a qualifying quantity of karma, but don't see the link any more.

[Jeremy Largman]

Yes. It was my intention never to expose it! I am quite open to exposing it (in fact that's why we built the feature), but based on the discussion, most people thought it should be our responsibility as moderators, at least for now. In a week or so we'll improve the spam protection and based on that I'll re-lower the threshold.

Do you have another opinion - should I open it back up?

[David at David Simpson Apps]

@Jeremy Largman: I'm happy for this to be excluded if you're happy to be the lone gatekeeper :)