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Originally Posted by jaerdaph  I agree - and I think there is a "silent majority" who don't really care because they are too mature to participate and simply ignore the posts or threads in question like functional adults who know how to show restraint. |
*Raises hand*
Also, to me, it seems like there's never any room for middle ground in those threads. The opinion that there are parts of
any game, not just
3E/
4E, that are liked and disliked is anathema to those threads. Which is why I don't post in them... though I do read them from time to time.
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Originally Posted by Mark I get the feeling that some people who come and go and start a good deal of the trouble have come to accept the short bans as a tolerable cost of their posting routine. Perhaps it is time to consider that people with three or more short bans should take a year off. |
I don't know how the bans work here, but why not have a tiered system instead of a three-strikes system? For example, maybe three days/ten days/one month, and then a year-long ban (effectively a perma-ban). Perhaps it already works like that and I don't know.
Another suggestion may be some sort of internal "warning points" system. For example, every time a post gets moderated (ie, a mod needs to edit) they get a point, so you can tell who the problem users are more easily. This might be a little more work though.
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