PoolCleaningRobot said:
It does seem pretty ironic when you point it out. You can get banned for acting immature and yet we give them that permabaned avatar sort of like saying "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out". It is satisfying to see on an extremely ban-worthy post though. Though I never really noticed Vault101's posts so I never understood all the hubub when she was banned just that people didn't like it
This is true, it is nice to see nasty people get what's coming to them. But that probably makes me one of them, so there you have it. You have to take the good with the bad though. I'm still not a fan.
Vault101 was nice enough. She did tend to add fuel to fires when she disagreed with people. And I mainly noticed her because she had a poor grasp of the English language. Anyway, shouldn't talk about someone posthumously. In any case, she made friends. It's never great when someone who is mostly positive gets kicked out, but every one of her punishments was deserved.
Yopaz said:
The low content post is actually not that bad. It's completely possible to agree with someone and add something of your own. It also makes sense if you have seen other forums where there are several posters who have posted one word or something similar. It adds nothing to the discussion, it's basically as useless as the thumbs up/ yhimbs down system on Youtube. I like that a forum intended for discussion encourages discussion.
As for the rest you said that's pretty straightforward. Don't be a dick and you won't get banned.
My advice is to take a break whenever you get your third warning. If I remember correctly the 4th is the point of no return to a squeaky clean record and if you have a clean record you have to do more than actually blurt out an insult in the heat of the moment to get banned.
Yes, it's not difficult to avoid the banhammer. People are running around with 20,000 posts, can't be that tough. And I can't remember the last time I saw a warning that was unfair.
My main concern was with the side effects of some of the rules. Again, those effects (like the passive-aggressive tendencies of the forum) are usually better than the alternative (which would be pure aggression). I can't think of any way to change the rules that would result in a net benefit to the forum.
And is that true that there is a point of no return? I haven't studied the cooldown period, so you might be right. I was under the impression that all warnings could eventually disappear as long as you didn't get banned.
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I just checked and you are correct, although it might be the 5th warning that crosses the line, i.e. you are allowed four warnings that can be taken back for good behaviour.