Wielding the banhammer

[Tallok]

I think we should have random temporary bannings once a week, you know to keep the threat alive. That'll keep everyone in line.

...and it'll keep the bored dependents crazy and homicidal

 

[Hypersmurf]

Only if the mods could be in that Random list!!

You know random bannings are never completely random, right?

For instance, I can guarantee that the first name I'd pull out of the hat would be Whisperfoot, followed by Sir Osis.

The cry of many a player for decades - "Don't give the DM ideas!"

-Hyp.

 

[Darrin Drader]

You know random bannings are never completely random, right?

For instance, I can guarantee that the first name I'd pull out of the hat would be Whisperfoot, followed by Sir Osis.

The cry of many a player for decades - "Don't give the DM ideas!"

-Hyp.

I think I heard the word dare tossed around here somewhere. Maybe I'm mistaken. - Not to say, of course, that I want to be banned.

 

[Mark]

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.

Hmmm... I've had just the opposite experience. The few I've had, with the exception of one, were utterly persecutory, wholy undeserved, and without merit in the slightest...

Spoiler

..according to me at the time...

...which leads me to believe that the Banhammer(tm) should be wielded randomly, but not with the name selection but rather BY WHO GETS TO WIELD IT! (Just to keep things chaotic...)

 

[diaglo]

Hmmm... I've had just the opposite experience. The few I've had...were utterly persecutory, wholy undeserved, and without merit in the slightest...

Spoiler

..according to me at the time...

...which leads me to believe that the Banhammer(tm) should be wielded randomly, but not with the name selection but rather BY WHO GETS TO WIELD IT! (Just to keep things chaotic...)

i'll second Mark's experience.

 

[Silver Moon]

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)

Heck, that's even happened to me once! PirateCat even sent me an email to apologize afterwards, although his original request for me to edit my post was 100% valid (I had reacted emotionally to a sexist anti-female post).

 

[Piratecat]

(I had reacted emotionally to a sexist anti-female post).

Posting manporn is never a solution.

 

[Henry]

Yeah, but even though I may get banned for it, I'll break the code of silence by saying that behind closed doors, when someone ticks us off, we play the Kids in the Hall "I'm squishing your head" game.

 

[Pielorinho]

Fair enough, and thanks for the responses. I participate in one other public MB besides this one; there, people are banned far more often (there's probably two bannings of prominent members every month), but threads are also closed far less often. If someone acts up in a thread, rather than getting the thread closed, they're a lot likely to get their posting privileges revoked.

Personally I enjoy that setup more: it seems to address the problem directly, rather than allowing misbehavers to torpedo an entire conversation. But I do recognize why this board is set up the way it is, and FWIW, I think y'all are doing a great job.

Daniel

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

For instance, I can guarantee that the first name I'd pull out of the hat would be Whisperfoot, followed by Sir Osis.

Awww, man! What'd i ever do to you?