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With the infractions tab under profiles gone when someone gets banned its hard to figure out what happened, or when they will be back
I don't keep stats on that, but at a rough estimate:
90% are in some way worth reading
30% are immediately actionable
20% are petty bullshit and fighting (there's often still a point to reading these)
Less than 1% are so bogus that they get the reporter warned
especially couched in a way that isn't humiliating - and more along the lines "hey, do a little self-care then come back in the morning"
Twitch (I stream most days of the week)
Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
That thread is for important or notable infractions and bannings. It's not intended as a complete source. The value of a complete source of all infractions would mainly be to lookey loos.
Shorter answer: Because to keep it completely updated would be a pain in the hole
Also I saw this yesterday and thought of you Tube, so enjoy
Of that population, how many are actual poster alts rather than the paid-poster spammers that crop up?
Summer, in England. There's barely any night.
On at least one occasion I've had to hurriedly invent a wife in an attempt to dissuade a potential suitor. So occasionally.
2) who was doing this job before you were here
3) Seems like mod activity/the need for mods actively beating people is way down since I started posting, is this true, measurable, what do you attribute it to?
4) When is the last time you posted in the G&T board for something other than official business (for me its been years)
A bit of both. It's a reactive job, so when nothing is happening I'll poke around and talk about my interests. I consider that an important part of the job.
I'm the only full time paid staff on the forum.
Spammers and alts are filed differently. There's probably about a dozen to two dozen spammers a week. Alts are relatively rare, but tend to follow the seasons. Sometimes you get someone who's determined to hurl themselves against the ramparts
Rarely. It's not a very effective tool. If you google something like The Trouble With IP Bans, I wrote an article on it.
It's a semi-arbitrary number that's neither ridiculously high or low. It's not about the hotlinking, it's about posting the image inline.
It's already in use, it happens a few times ever year. It's generally very effective but it's a high maintenance strategy.
Nope. It's one of the most effective tools we have. If you got kicked out of a thread, you deserved it.
We use out of the box Vanilla with a very limited number of custom plugins. There aren't any update issues.
Does the nature of our specific community affect mod policy; for example if you were admining a different forum would your rules for bans/punishments be different?
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It's halfway to being banned. It restricts your account in some relatively minor ways and serves as an obvious signifier that you're on thin ice. A jailed user who is infracted again is banned. It wears off after a certain period of time.
Yeah probably. It had its day
It's a healthy thing for the community to do every so often. The end of the recent trans thread was when I decided to do so imminently.
Probably not, depends how busy it gets. I'm sure someone will mention it in the D&D chat and I doubt anyone elsewhere is interested. If there's demand, I'll do another in G&T some time.
or something similar?
i dont even want my name changed. that shit is hilarious to watch
Twitch (I stream most days of the week)
Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
Probably? We don't do many polls, I'm not sure if users have that permission or not. There's nothing stopping it certainly.
It's totally random, and just for funsies. I believe it's weighted on certain criteria, but those are secret.
True, measurable and not measured. It's due to the fruition of a lot of long term management policies intended to make the community less toxic and requiring of micro management.
Well I disagree. Twice I've seen tal be booted from a thread for making completely legitimate posts. All it does is shut the kicked user down from engaging in any more conversation about a topic, and it makes even less sense when you consider that the current topic in any thread could be vastly different in a day, but now they are not allowed to interact in any meaningful way.