New Ban - System

Illuminati · Post #21 » by **Illuminati** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:50 am

At which point is a user banned?

Say you piled up a few warnings and suspensions, does it mean you're on your absol. last strike? Is there nothing you can do to redeem yourself?

Say you're on good behavior and 3 months later you get in a verbal spat with a poster, will you be banned or suspended?

Comet · Post #22 » by **Comet** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:05 pm

Illuminati wrote:At which point is a user banned?

Say you piled up a few warnings and suspensions, does it mean you're on your absol. last strike? Is there nothing you can do to redeem yourself?

Say you're on good behavior and 3 months later you get in a verbal spat with a poster, will you be banned or suspended?

If you've been suspended twice, and you mess up again shortly afterwards, you will likely be waived. But just because you've been suspended twice doesn't necessarily mean there's no forgiveness.

http://realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=701202

Scoot McGroot wrote:To me, a poster starts to outgrow and earn some leeway from his past suspensions when he's shown large growth in their posting habits over the course of around 6 months, not just 1 month.

miller31time wrote:The mods who issue the warnings and the commish's who administer the suspensions and bans look at each situation differently. If, as Scoot said, you've shown growth or the ability to fix your problems, and you accidentally mess up in a minor way, then you'll most likely just get another suspension and not a ban.

I've had 2 suspensions myself, and I'm not exactly sure what my status is on that, but I think it's safe to say that I'm far less likely to get waived now than in August, which was the last month I was suspended or warned.

Post #23 » by **Scoot McGroot** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:37 am

Wow, I guess I'm famous.

Friend_Of_Haley · Post #24 » by **Friend_Of_Haley** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:17 am

Scoot McGroot wrote:Wow, I guess I'm famous.

Can I get your autograph?

Illuminati · Post #25 » by **Illuminati** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:55 am

Thank you very much Comet.

Post #26 » by **Scoot McGroot** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:44 pm

Friend_Of_Haley wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Can I get your autograph?

Sure.

Best wishes and keep it real,

Scoot McGroot

Friend_Of_Haley · Post #27 » by **Friend_Of_Haley** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:58 pm

Sweet, I'm gonna blow it up, frame it and hang it on the ceiling over my bed.

Post #28 » by **Scoot McGroot** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:11 am

Friend_Of_Haley wrote:Sweet, I'm gonna blow it up, frame it and hang it on the ceiling over my bed.

That'll be $50. You can paypal me.

Friend_Of_Haley · Post #29 » by **Friend_Of_Haley** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:14 am

Scoot McGroot wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

That'll be $50. You can paypal me.

Not cool bro. That was supposed to be a gift.

Post #30 » by **Scoot McGroot** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:38 pm

Friend_Of_Haley wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Not cool bro. That was supposed to be a gift.

k.....we'll call it a permanent birthday/Christmas/Chanukah/general gift giving holiday gift.....deal?

Post #31 » by **tsherkin** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:32 am

FWIW, mods don't have final authority on suspensions or bans, even globals; these things are put before the commissioners, who review each situation individually and often disagree with what the mods themselves requested, going for one more suspension or a shorter suspension and what-not.

If there's a situation where the mods are asking for a ban, a commish will take the time to investigate the situation fully and really, there's RARELY a situation where a poster who's getting banned should be allowed to just stick around the OTB board.

Also, Tom Chambers was not banned for differing political views; there was a LONG history of TOS offenses associated with him and he earned his ban as a result.

As in most cases, there's really no need to let a poster who's being banned retain any access to the forums, since that defeats the purpose of the ban in the first place.

Friend_Of_Haley · Post #32 » by **Friend_Of_Haley** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:54 am

I won't lie, I have to question how thoroughly the commish looks into a situation before banning someone.

The only reason I say this is because I was accidentally banned once. Apparently some part of a mix up because of my avatar..??

I don't know, but I find it hard to believe a thorough investigation could accidentally ban someone.

Post #33 » by **NO-KG-AI** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:04 am

No, you got banned because of that joke Scotty account, all they saw was two different accounts lol.

Friend_Of_Haley · Post #34 » by **Friend_Of_Haley** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 9:21 am

NO-KG-AI wrote:No, you got banned because of that joke Scotty account, all they saw was two different accounts lol.

The accidental banning was months after that.

Post #35 » by **kyphi** » Sat Mar 1, 2008 2:52 pm

In those cases mods have input that maybe a ban was accidentally made - remember when a few posters thought they were posting innocuous pictures but a porn pic showed up instead? That's a case of mods brining it to the attention of the commishes. I know some posters (usually the waived ones) think all we have to do is report violations and voila, a suspension or banning occurs. Also, when a post is reported the commishes and globals see it as well as the board mods.