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time for a sticky on bans?

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  • 13-03-2007 10:59am
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    galwaytt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭✭


    ...I see a few post on bans, how/why etc, but I don't see a sticky on how, or why - or, much more importantly, what the protocol is: e.g. you get a warning, then the 1 week/1 month/permanent etc and the recourse to having it looked at with a view to adjudication. A Mod's Mod, if you like.

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    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    Well, the protocol doesn't require a warning. Warnings can be because something would normally be okay but a moderator has judged that something is getting out of hand, or else (if it's in clear breech of the charter) should be considered the moderator doing the person in question a favour.

    There isn't even that much of a set protocol (varies considerably from forum to forum) though I have been meaning to write a "how not to get banned, and how to get unbanned if you are" post for some time. The main thing that keeps bumping it down my to-do list is that the sort of people who account for 99% of the bans aren't going to bother reading it anyway.


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    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    If you've been banned from a forum, PM it's Mod and ask the question


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    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    galwaytt wrote:
    Otherwise, a judgement by a Mod can be mis-informed, and at least one opportunity should pass for redress before the ban comes into effect.
    Not in the vast majority of bans. The vast majority of bans are because someone was acting like a complete and utter asshole.

    The moderators only duty in such cases is to those members of the forum that want to use the forum without people acting like complete and utter assholes.

    Bans are more noticable to non-moderators when they were greyer than that, but suggesting a protocol where we warn in every case suggests that we have to warn every deliberately disruptive asshole as well as people who are just stepping across a line a bit.


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