[Suggestion] Make soft-ban command act like other bots

[F0xin1]

Soft-ban on other bots bans the user, and unbans them, this is usually done to get rid of the messages.

Pretty simple explanation lol

Just an idea that came up in my mind :P

[ghost]

inb4 But We're Different!™

[vladfrangu]

But We're Different!™️

[vladfrangu]

Softban works by banning the user, without removing his / hers / its messages.

A new ban command could be easily done, but I don't really see its need

[0sean]

@Kyle2000 The only problem with nuke is it doesn't always remove all of the messages. I think this would be cool. :+1:

[vladfrangu]

Let me correct you. The Discord API prevents any bot from bulk deleting messages that are older than 2 weeks. Meaning, the bot will just ignore them.

In some APIs, like Discord.JS, theres an option to delete the even older ones, at who knows what price.

[ghost]

@theanidox As far as I know, there's no way to remove all of a user's messages anyway. Definitely not those older than 2 weeks. Nuke takes in the message count as a number of messages to search, then deletes the ones it finds — not the most recent of that number of messages which match the query.

[ghost]

Anyway: softban in GAB is different but it definitely serves a useful purpose. I've used both standard ban and softban in different cases, both for legitimate practical purposes. However, I don't see the practical use of a ban-nuke-unban function.

[vladfrangu]

You have the extension API at your hands. ~Abuse~ Use it 😛

[Gilbert142]

Closing until someone else wants to argue for the ban-nuke-unban command.