Wielding the banhammer

Tallok · Feb 1, 2004

I think we don't really have a problem with the use of the banhammer. we are, after all, one of the most well behaved forums I've seen on the net. But I do think that the banhammer is a good form of punishment if someone is well out of line.

EricNoah · Feb 2, 2004

I don't think of banning as punishment -- punishment should, ideally, result in changing behavior. I see banning as a last resort, to keep someone out who is so disruptive or against the very nature of this place that having them here would make a lot of people miserable.

HellHound · Feb 2, 2004

Yeah. Since moderation is handled so 'adultly' here, getting a post deleted or even just having a message appear in my inbox from a mod telling me to shape up makes me feel bashfull enough that I behave much better for the next month or two.

Piratecat · Feb 2, 2004

HellHound said:
Yeah. Since moderation is handled so 'adultly' here, getting a post deleted or even just having a message appear in my inbox from a mod telling me to shape up makes me feel bashfull enough that I behave much better for the next month or two.

If I didn't respect you, I would have been a jerk.

HellHound · Feb 2, 2004

:bashfull:

Yeah... I've drawn four 'moderator intercessions' that I can remember over the past three years. Each one was VERY much deserved, and was handled in a very adult and mature fashion.

(And I only managed to get Piratecat breathing down my neck for two of those)

By not doing it in a publically visible fashion, and by handling it IMMEDIATELY in most situations, the situation is handled in a manner that doesn't shame the poster except privately, which is how it works best.

As they teach in all the classes... Praise in public, discipline or scold in private.

Edit: And I *really* can't imagine PKitty being a 'jerk' as he says. Respect or not. But then again, he must respect me since he didn't scold me for taking his quote about my design skills and using it as a sneaky method to eat people's brains.