Let me start by saying I'm not trying to get anyone banned or rebanned. I think people should be allowed to discuss whatever. Let the marketplace of ideas sort it all out.

Still, I'm curious: When mods say they've banned someone for doing something incendiary (like baiting other people with threads about race or whatever) are their (often frequent) returns a violation of that original ban?

Or do mods take a wait-and-see approach when a banned orger conspicuously returns and starts up with the same kinds of threads that got them banned originally?

Honey-bunny, this has come up before and the Mods basically seem to say, "if you know of someone who's back, tell us, and we'll try to confirm it and then we'll ban them again". But then they also say, "sometimes there's no way of knowing for sure that it's the banned Orger, so we can't always just ban someone we suspect, but the banned Orger will probably get themselves in trouble again with their old behaviors and then we'll ban them again".

All paraphrasing, of course.

How'd I do, Mods?

AnotherLoverToo said:

BANNED!!!!!

AnotherLoverToo said:

summed it up beautifully...

althom said:

I know you are, but what am I?
[Edited 7/22/06 12:36pm]

But of course...

There's levels of banned-ness.

Depending on the violation, one might get an unexpected "break" from the Org, only to return within 1 to 14 days. Continuous violations or one gigantic violation could result in a "perma-ban".

Beware... we are watching you.

June7 said:

ya know...i wish we could differentiate between a ban and a suspension when altering folks...

also, i wonder, if someone is suspended does that mean that your profile and user data is removed until the suspension is over?

sosgemini said:

It does, in the orgnote. It (the phrase, that is) states they are banned for "x" amount of days. I think the meaning of "suspension" is there. It's implied.

June7 said:

oh, your right...now what about the second part of my post?

sosgemini said:

I forget...

I think we'll have to ban someone for the hell of it, then look at their account. Whaddya think?

lets ban luv...

sosgemini said:

Could you imagine?

I think she's coming!!

June7 said:

You called boys?

luv4u said:

Uh... no. Uh... did you call her SOS?

Wow, moderators jacking a thread on banning.



Banning/suspension is a gray azz area, just like everything else on this site. Adult avies and other pics, posts that are snipped, threads that are locked/deleted, orgers that get away with a whooooole lot of BS (such as the banned/returned orger that inspired this thread in the first place) ...it's often subjective to the mods own personal perspective.

Anyway, I don't rerally care. The org is my playground, not my platform.

Adisa said:

please orgnote me to tell me who your talking about cause i aint got a clue...

so to say its all "bs" is a huge leap of judgement on your part.

sosgemini said:

Which is my point exactly. And I just found out the orger in question is already gone until the next time he returns. Maybe somebody already reported it or maybe the orger deleted the account.


[Edited 7/25/06 19:35pm]