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Seeing forums while banned?

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  • 10-08-2010 10:56pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey all, is there any way to see a forum without logging out when banned?
    I don't see any benefit to this restriction and since I browse boards mostly from my phone, I can't be logging in and out all the time cause it's painfully slow to do.
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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Hey all, is there any way to see a forum without logging out when banned?
    No.
    I don't see any benefit to this restriction and since I browse boards mostly from my phone, I can't be logging in and out all the time cause it's painfully slow to do.
    That's a compelling reason not to get banned.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fair point.


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    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,775 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    No. That's a compelling reason not to get banned.
    If ever there was a 'qft' - that was it.


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    ozt9vdujny3srf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭ozt9vdujny3srf


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Hey all, is there any way to see a forum without logging out when banned?
    I don't see any benefit to this restriction and since I browse boards mostly from my phone, I can't be logging in and out all the time cause it's painfully slow to do.

    Two possible solutions:

    1: Dont be reading forums you are banned from all the time! ;)

    2: if you go to <anything>.boards.ie that isnt what you are normally logged in as, you wont be logged in i.e. b.boards.ie wont be logged in if you logged in with www.boards.ie.


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Stefan Mammoth Listener wrote: »
    2: if you go to <anything>.boards.ie that isnt what you are normally logged in as, you wont be logged in i.e. b.boards.ie wont be logged in if you logged in with www.boards.ie.
    I don't think that's true anymore.


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    ozt9vdujny3srf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,152 ✭✭✭ozt9vdujny3srf


    oscarBravo wrote: »
    I don't think that's true anymore.

    Ahah, it isn't! Blast. Scratch that so.


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    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I don't see any benefit to this restriction ..

    Don't know if this is anything to do with it or not, but ..

    A user could get banned and then lurk a thread just to antagonise a Mod or another user by using the 'thanks' feature in a deliberately provocative way.

    I have seen users do this when they were banned from posting on a particular thread, so every reason to presume it would happen also if a user could 'thank' posts on a forum that they were just banned from.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is that really an issue? Thanking posts?

    I mean I got banned for a week and it was retracted 15 minutes later after me explaining the situation to the mod in question. Even other mods of that forum thanked the post I made.
    Had I not explained it and instead accepted the ban, I'd have been left for a week not being able that forum on my phone..

    Letting or not letting them read the forum should at least be an option when banning someone and I can't see any argument against that.. For trolls, stop them reading, for regular users, let them.


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    I don't follow you - you can still PM the mod of a forum if you're banned - you don't need to be able to view the forum to do that.


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    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Don't know if this is anything to do with it or not, but ..

    A user could get banned and then lurk a thread just to antagonise a Mod or another user by using the 'thanks' feature in a deliberately provocative way.

    I have seen users do this when they were banned from posting on a particular thread, so every reason to presume it would happen also if a user could 'thank' posts on a forum that they were just banned from.
    How could one use the thanks feature "in a provocative way"?


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    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Lenny Lovett wrote: »
    How could one use the thanks feature "in a provocative way"?

    As I said, the same way some users do when they have been banned from posting in a thread but not the forum.

    They can continue to participate in the thread by thanking everyone who disagrees with the person they just personally abused.

    I have also seen users sarcastically thank a member's posts after getting banned from a thread.


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    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    As I said, the same way some users do when they have been banned from posting in a thread but not the forum.

    They can continue to participate in the thread by thanking everyone who disagrees with the person they just personally abused.

    I have also seen users sarcastically thank a member's posts after getting banned from a thread.
    I'm sorry but that just sounds petty.


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    #14
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Lenny Lovett wrote: »
    I'm sorry but that just sounds petty.

    It is petty, but it happens and as I said, it most likely has nothing at all to do with why people can't view forums while they are banned from them, without logging out of course.

    Just my personal opinion, nothing more.


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    #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    eoin wrote: »
    I don't follow you - you can still PM the mod of a forum if you're banned - you don't need to be able to view the forum to do that.

    I don't follow you at all.. I was making a point that bans are thrown about too easy sometimes and forcing users to log out especially when using a phone can be unnecessarily harsh.


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    #16
    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I don't follow you at all.. I was making a point that bans are thrown about too easy sometimes and forcing users to log out especially when using a phone can be unnecessarily harsh.

    OK, your post was confusing. I think that bans should be an inconvenience. If there really are too many unfairly issued bans, then that needs to be addressed in its own right.


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