LuckyLloyd wrote: » I'm sure there are a handful of cases every couple of years where users have a genuine need to close an account for matters of urgent privacy. It could have been a case that such users could have emailed the site to request same and make a case for closure. As it is, the vast majority of closed accounts are being used in a negative anti community sense.
KERSPLAT! wrote: » It's like Byrner phones, Byrner accounts. Use it and ditch it. Isn't that right OXO!
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Jobs OXO wrote: » Eh? Paranoid much?
KERSPLAT! wrote: » More than a little. Chemical imbalance I'm told
Boards.ie: Mark wrote: » Closed accounts are brought up every so often, but there are always arguments both for and against. As Niamh said, this is something we'll have to mull over. But unless we were to tie accounts to something with more setup required than an e-mail address - which I don't think will happen - there will always be people willing to scrap an ID for a new account. If there were suggestions as to how to make disciplinary action and appeals process better or more straightforward for all, we'd certainly like to hear them. At the moment, a person appealing can try to come to an agreement with the mod who took action, then raise it to a CMod, and then request an Admin review. If it stands after all that, then surely whatever action taken was justified.
Jobs OXO wrote: » Could you do an analysis to outline what % of DRPs are actually successful?
WinnyThePoo wrote: » What do you mean by successful?
Jobs OXO wrote: » Cards/bans overturned
WinnyThePoo wrote: » What does it matter?
Boards.ie: Mark wrote: » Closed accounts are brought up every so often, but there are always arguments both for and against. As Niamh said, this is something we'll have to mull over. But unless we were to tie accounts to something with more setup required than an e-mail address - which I don't think will happen - there will always be people willing to scrap an ID for a new account.
D0NNELLY wrote: » Email accounts are as throw away as boards accounts. Text the confirmation message to a phone. One account per phone number.
Erik Shin wrote: » Sim cards are throw away also if we're going down that route
Peregrine wrote: » It is absolutely how it should be. Someone with a poor record will get longer bans. Poor record means recent record. A couple of cards and a ban four years ago and then nothing until now doesn't constitute a poor record. In your idea, every transgression would have a certain card or ban associated with it and it would be applied with no regard to your previous transgressions. If calling someone a dickhead is a red card, you could call someone a dickhead everyday and only keep picking up red cards. What's the point in that? The user is just collecting cards that have no meaning. You may as well not get red cards because they don't mean anything. That is absolutely not how it is and should never be how it is. If someone gets a red card and then has another transgression then they should get a one day ban. If they keep it up, three day ban, one week ban and increment until permanent. Anyone who doesn't get the message after so many warnings and bans shouldn't be allowed to waste other users' and moderators' time further.
Turtyturd wrote: » Each post could still be viewed independently and have incremental bans as a result of each infraction. But what happens is you get the mod saying 'I am upholding this based on several of your other posts...' and these posts won't have been carded so shouldn't play any part in the decision. If a poster is only allowed to comment on the post they are disputing the same rule should apply to mods. There's plenty of examples of a Cmod threatening to implement bans on other posts after a poster has disputed a card, hardly the type of behaviour to encourage posters to dispute their cards (probably his intention) or that's conducive to a fair system.
Zaph wrote: » Here's a link to the DRF archive, knock yourself out.
D0NNELLY wrote: » The serial reregers do it cause it's a 2 min job to get a new email address. Constantly getting new SIM cards just wouldn't be worth the hassle
Jobs OXO wrote: » Sound, but I asked a man a question. Could you allow HIM answer the question I asked HIM instead of piling in as per usual?
Zaph wrote: » Given that the stats you're looking for aren't kept as a matter of course, it's as easy for you to go look for them yourself as it is for Mark to do the legwork given that there's no benefit to him in actually doing so.
Jobs OXO wrote: » Can he talk for himself ?
Zaph wrote: » It's outside of office hours so he's not around right now so I'm offering you an alternative whereby you can get the information you want quicker.
