Can you ban people from groups?

A question from a friend of mine (English is not her first language so she asked me to post it).

If you have an open enrollment group and are troubled by a griefer, is it possible to ban him or her from the group, as you might ban someone from a sim? Or can the pest just keep on rejoining the group each time he or she is booted out?

I can't find any way to do it in the knowledge base, but that's not as navigable as it might be.

You can place individual avatars on a "banned" list. You do that in the "access" tab in the group. But only the owner(s) can do that.

As far as I know the only way to keep him out is to restrict enrollment to invite only. Or you might put a price on admission and refund the cost to everyone but him.

h how this would be nice to do .....
I had to just keep it closed once when this freaky girl kept pulling that move.

Last I heard if you eject somebody from a group that avatar will not ever be allowed to join that group again, even if it is open enrollment, without a specific invitation. So make sure that only people you trust have invite powers and you can merely eject the griefer from the group.

Where is the "access" tab? I own a group and I can't see it.. prolly looking in the wrong place.

there's a jira open for a feature allowing group owners to ban specific residents from joining a group. there is a comment stating that there was some fix in place where if you were ejected from an open group, you couldn't rejoin without an invitation, but there is also a comment saying that is false and doesn't work. haven't tried it myself but maybe someone could check with an alt. http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-2826

here's the jira feature request: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-2825

I think she is talking about group owned land.

I suspect you're thinking about the access banning features in about land. there's isn't a banning feature in groups . you only eject someone if you have sufficient abilities to do so.

This isn't true. We've done that when cleaning up a group. You can join again.

Yes, according to my friend, that's the problem.. she bans this guy and he's back again five minutes later, spamming and causing a nuisance. She's trying Chris Norse's solution, having warned him that her problem chap that he won't get his money back. I suggested she AR the guy for persistent spamming and harassment, which apparently she has already but nothing's yet been done.

You're right.......my bad.

I knew what I was talking about...........sorry for the confusion

What you can do now is mute someone from posting to group chat, which usually deals with why someone is being removed from a group, though not always. It is very helpful nonetheless.

The problem with that is that, apparently, the work-round is just to leave group chat session, reopen the window, and you are no longer prevented from posting. That's what this pest does, as I understand it.

I'm wondering if the solution wouldn't be an inviter bot of some sort -- presumably the bot could have this chap on its mute list or otherwise be programmed to ignore requests from him for invitations to join the group.