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Staffan

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I happened to click on a poster's name in a thread and was surprised to see this piece of info:
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Clicking onward to the poster's profile I could see the specific things that had incurred the moderators' wrath. Is that really something we commoners are supposed to see?

I remember asking previously for being able to see the profile and search for posts by banned forum members out of curiosity about what had lead to them being banned, and was told that allowing that probably wouldn't lead to anything good, which I can see. But isn't this basically the same thing? Well, except the poster isn't currently banned, but it's still the same sort of thing.
 

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This surfaced a few months ago, in an older thread. Relevant posts start here:


No real info in there, i don't think, but there it is if you want to take look.
 

Another prominent site actually intentionally puts the entire discipline file for posters out where the public can read it and, yeah, it's not great, especially since there's no public appeal -- it's a site with ... idiosyncratic moderation -- and trying to state your case in public quickly ends in a ban.

I assume the points are out there at ENWorld unintentionally.
 

Another prominent site actually intentionally puts the entire discipline file for posters out where the public can read it and, yeah, it's not great, especially since there's no public appeal -- it's a site with ... idiosyncratic moderation -- and trying to state your case in public quickly ends in a ban.

I assume the points are out there at ENWorld unintentionally.
I know another gaming company's forum that post publicly when a user is banned and what got them banned (not counting bots)
 

Another prominent site actually intentionally puts the entire discipline file for posters out where the public can read it and, yeah, it's not great, especially since there's no public appeal -- it's a site with ... idiosyncratic moderation -- and trying to state your case in public quickly ends in a ban.
In fairness, I'd say a good 40% of the "discipline" are gags or jokes
 

I know another gaming company's forum that post publicly when a user is banned and what got them banned (not counting bots)
AFAIK, here we tend to get this at the "crime scene" – some mod pops in and says "You know what, I'm sick of your nonsense in this and other threads. Bye!". But we don't get a centralized depository of bans and other penalties.
 

AFAIK, here we tend to get this at the "crime scene" – some mod pops in and says "You know what, I'm sick of your nonsense in this and other threads. Bye!". But we don't get a centralized depository of bans and other penalties.
Which is a shame, because the "other site's" discipline forum used to be an entertaining read.
 

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