SleekView Feedback for Ban Hammer
Ban Hammer locks out spammers and bad signups by banning emails, usernames, and IPs at registration. SleekView Feedback turns those ban events into a sortable board so admins and moderators can upvote the bans that work, flag risky unbans, and track every decision in public instead of in a private wp-admin screen.
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From a quiet banlist to a public review feed
Ban Hammer stores its banned terms and IP rules in options and a custom table, and matches incoming registrations against those rules. The plugin works well for the lone admin who set it up, but the banlist itself is invisible to the rest of the team. New moderators have no idea why a given pattern is on the list, requests to unban a legitimate user vanish into email, and there is no shared record of which rules are catching real abuse and which are dead weight.
SleekView Feedback reads the Ban Hammer rule store directly. Each ban becomes one card with the matched pattern, the rule type, the date it was added, and the admin who added it. You map an upvote column for confidence, a status column for labels like Active, Under review, Expired, or Retired, and a category column for tags like email, username, ip, or regex. From that point on the team votes on which rules stay, which need review, and which can come off the list.
The banlist stops being one admin's pet project and becomes a shared moderation queue with an audit trail.
Workflow
From Ban Hammer rules to a public board
Point at the Ban Hammer rules
Map vote, status, category
Embed the moderation board
Votes drive list cleanup
Sample board
Sample Ban Hammer review board
Comparison
Ban Hammer admin vs SleekView Feedback
Ban Hammer default screen
- Banlist is a single admin screen that only the original moderator ever reviews
- No way for other moderators to upvote the rules that genuinely catch abuse
- Unban requests get lost in email instead of being tracked on the source rule
- No record of why a given pattern was banned, who added it, or when to retire it
- Retired rules stay on the list because nothing forces a periodic team review
SleekView Feedback
- One card per Ban Hammer rule with pattern, type, author, score, and current status
- Upvote writes back to a numeric column so cleanup jobs can sort by team confidence
- Filter by rule type, status, or age using any column from the Ban Hammer source table
- Embed on a private moderation board or a staff portal page with a shortcode or block
- Bridges the gap between a quiet wp-admin banlist and the moderation queue the team uses
Features
What SleekView Feedback gives you for Ban Hammer
Banlist gets a review queue
Every Ban Hammer rule becomes a votable card. Moderators see which rules the team trusts, which got retired, and which still need a closer look. The board acts as a live review queue on top of the banlist without bolting on a separate moderation system.
Unban requests stop vanishing
Tag a card with an Unban request category and the next moderator picking up the board sees it next to the rule that caught the user. Status moves to Investigating, the team votes on it, and the decision lives forever next to the rule that triggered the original ban.
Cleanup jobs follow the votes
Because votes write to the source column, scheduled cleanup or expiry jobs can use the score to retire rules nobody trusts anymore. The banlist shrinks to the rules the team agrees on, which makes the next moderation review faster and a lot easier to defend.
Audience
How moderation teams use the board
Shared moderation queue
Senior moderators and new joiners share one board for every active rule. Anyone can flag a rule, the team votes on whether it stays, and the queue stays sorted by confidence instead of by whoever happened to add the rule first months ago.
Multi site agency review
Agencies that run several membership sites share a filtered board per site. Senior leads can spot rules copied across properties, decide which ones still make sense per audience, and retire the ones that started catching real customers instead of bad signups.
Audit log for legal review
Each ban carries a category, an author, a status, and a vote count, which is the shape a legal or trust and safety review wants when asking why a specific user was blocked from registering on the site. The board doubles as the audit trail without extra paperwork.
The bigger picture
Why a review board changes Ban Hammer hygiene
Ban Hammer is the kind of plugin that gets installed once, configured in a hurry, and then never reviewed. The banlist grows quietly, mostly because adding a rule feels safer than removing one. Six months later the list is a museum of old regexes, country wide IP blocks added during one bad weekend, and email domain bans nobody can explain.
Real customers start getting caught by rules from the previous era, and nobody on the team can defend why a given pattern is even on the list. A review board changes that habit. Each rule becomes something the team votes on, tags, and either confirms or retires.
Upvotes give you a cheap honest signal about which rules the moderators actually trust. Status pills make it obvious which rules are still active, which are under review, and which are scheduled to retire. Categories let you slice the list by rule type, by author, or by age.
And because votes write back to the source store, a small cleanup job can keep the banlist healthy automatically, retiring rules below a threshold and freezing the ones the team voted to defend. The end state is a banlist that protects the site against abuse without protecting itself against scrutiny.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Feedback for Ban Hammer
It reads what Ban Hammer wrote. The plugin keeps writing rules to its option or custom table, and SleekView mounts a board on top of that store. You point at the source, map the columns for votes, status, category, and rule data, and the board renders directly. No copy, no sync, no duplicated rules.
Yes. SleekView supports logged in voting for staff only views, so a Subscriber role moderator can vote on rules and see the queue without ever needing access to the Ban Hammer settings screen. You decide which roles can read and write, and the same view handles both cases without a code change.
Logged in voters are tracked by user ID, so each user gets one vote per item. There is also a rate limit you can set per IP, which is enough to keep public client facing boards honest. Anonymous votes use cookie scoped tokens, so the same browser cannot quietly cast the same vote twice on one card.
Yes. SleekView accepts a WHERE clause when you wire up the data source, so you can scope the board by date, by rule type, or by author. Different pages can show different boards, which is how most teams build a quarterly cleanup view alongside the all time banlist that lives on the main page.
Status is a column on the rule row, so flipping a rule to Retired updates that column on the source table. Most teams pair that with a small filter or cron job that respects the Retired status when matching registrations, so retiring a rule on the board genuinely takes effect without a manual delete step.
Yes. SleekView lets you flip the same data source between anonymous and logged in modes on different pages. A staff intranet can show full rule details and vote controls, while a public moderation log shows only the category, the status, and the vote count, which is enough for trust and safety reporting.
Yes. Upvotes write to the source column, which means any custom Ban Hammer dashboards, scheduled cleanup jobs, or external moderation reports can sort and filter rules by score. The board is not a vanity counter, it is the input to whatever cleanup logic you decide to run against the banlist.
The view paginates server side and only loads the rows it needs to render the current page. SleekView uses indexes on the vote, status, and timestamp columns if you provide them, which means even multi year banlists stay responsive on the board without forcing a separate moderation database.
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