I am sure I mentioned this in a previous post, but the ban button allows moderators/administrators to suspend posters on a timer, if you will. For example, you could have a 3 day suspension of posting privileges.Marcus wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:36 pm
To that end, it would be helpful to know what happens when someone does break the rules? And then continues to break the rules? And then breaks the rules some more? And then are publicly warned not to break the rules? And then have the rules publicly explained to them? And then continues to disrupt, harass and derail, ad nauseam?
It would be helpful if/when a poster was put on suspension or banned or put on the queue and/or confined to Prison or Telestial, that the moderator taking the action would post that mod action directly to the board like they do every other mod action. Otherwise no one knows that anything is being done as a consequence to posters for habitually and defiantly breaking the rules, and it feels like the end is never in sight for posters who do conform to board rules.
Another idea would be to instead of confining posters to Prison or Telestial, to confine them to Celestial or the new Super Spirit Paradise Forum here as a form of rehabilitation. I'm dead serious here.
In the matter of queuing and confining to Prison/Telestial, I think that Shades has it exactly bassackwards. Put them in the upper forums and you can avoid the queue entirely. If they can't pass muster, then by all means, queue them.
We've got 3 excellent mods on this board now. Why should they be bothered baby sitting grown adults and fielding the reports being generated by these people every day they come on this board? In all these years, I have never lost sight of the fact that Shades and the mods are posters, too. Why let defiant posters who have no intention of abiding by the rules that the rest of the posting world here does, suck up everyone's time? Makes this board look like a bunch of wag the dog fools, it does.
Did that last line sound like Yoda?