Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 6:09:50 GMT via mobile SalMasRac, SofaJockey, and 1 more like this

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Post by Qui-Gon GlenN7 on Nov 16, 2018 6:09:50 GMT

Nov 15, 2018 13:16:19 GMT regack said:

Nov 15, 2018 9:20:11 GMT DragonKingReborn said:

How long would you like it to be?

no fair! I haven't banned anyone yet :crying:

You watch yourself. We're wanted men.

As a recent vacationer - I had no official notice, penalty, punishment, rosaries to count, Allah's to draw, etx.

I am happy to have had unofficial discussion with an unnamed moderator discussing the momentous occasion via email, so in this case perhaps it was considered "handled". However, some sort of infraction notification system might be of benefit.

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 8:24:11 GMT SalMasRac, regack, and 1 more like this

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Post by SofaJockey on Nov 16, 2018 8:24:11 GMT

Nov 16, 2018 6:09:50 GMT Qui-Gon GlenN7 said:

As a recent vacationer - I had no official notice, penalty, punishment, rosaries to count, Allah's to draw, etx.

I am happy to have had unofficial discussion with an unnamed moderator discussing the momentous occasion via email, so in this case perhaps it was considered "handled". However, some sort of infraction notification system might be of benefit.

We might want to move this interesting segway to 'About moderation' if it continues, but I'll make this observation here:

An annoyance of the system of giving temp-bans is that people can't read PMs while temp banned.

I'll take this point back to 'The Mod Cave' as I would like to see communication be as good as it can be.
Perhaps there's a plugin that could e-mail, not sure, worth discussing.

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 8:39:58 GMT SalMasRac, SofaJockey, and 4 more like this

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Post by ArcadiaGrey on Nov 16, 2018 8:39:58 GMT

Yes, it concerns me that ppl get the ban screen without context. We also tested it and saw that there's no way of communicating how long it is either, so people may panic and think it's far longer than it is.

I hope we can find a better system.

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 10:39:07 GMT regack likes this

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Post by Lavochkin on Nov 16, 2018 10:39:07 GMT

Nov 16, 2018 8:39:58 GMT ArcadiaGrey said:

Yes, it concerns me that ppl get the ban screen without context. We also tested it and saw that there's no way of communicating how long it is either, so people may panic and think it's far longer than it is.

I hope we can find a better system.

Can't even send out an e-mail to say how long the ban is?

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 10:41:00 GMT Qui-Gon GlenN7, DragonKingReborn, and 1 more like this

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Post by SofaJockey on Nov 16, 2018 10:41:00 GMT

Nov 16, 2018 10:38:37 GMT Lavochkin said:

Can't even send out an e-mail to say how long the ban is?

The current forum software does not do that, no.
You might think twice using your personal e-mail for that purpose.

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 14:16:59 GMT mousestalker, DragonRacer, and 3 more like this

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Post by regack on Nov 16, 2018 14:16:59 GMT

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I went ahead and moved this this out separately, since I'd like to do a bit of research into how we can go about making sure there's adequate notice, and then this can serve as a point that people can reference.

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 14:22:44 GMT dragontartare and regack like this

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Post by Serza on Nov 16, 2018 14:22:44 GMT

What if you made a forum-wide email to send stuff from. If a person did fill in their email, they get the notice. If not, tough luck.

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 14:41:54 GMT Serza, KrrKs, and 1 more like this

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Post by SofaJockey on Nov 16, 2018 14:41:54 GMT

Nov 16, 2018 14:22:44 GMT Serza said:

What if you made a forum-wide email to send stuff from. If a person did fill in their email, they get the notice. If not, tough luck.

Not a bad idea.

Anyone can already DM our twitter account.

twitter.com/BSNforums

I'd also make the observation that biggest 'ban-fest' I ever saw was 4 in one week.

The chilled members we have means that the likelihood of bans is statistically small.

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 16, 2018 17:03:59 GMT KrrKs and dragontartare like this

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Post by regack on Nov 16, 2018 17:03:59 GMT

Popping this in here real quick.

This URL : login.proboards.com/select/login/6576594

Takes you to a landing page which allows you to choose your login account. It displays a status on your account like so:

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 23, 2018 18:53:37 GMT Qui-Gon GlenN7 likes this

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Post by regack on Nov 23, 2018 18:53:37 GMT

I'm working on an update to this, with a bit of a "what to expect" kind of post, hopefully soon. Sorry for the delays.

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Vacation Notice -or- What To Do When You're Banned Nov 23, 2018 19:09:05 GMT

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Post by SofaJockey on Nov 23, 2018 19:09:05 GMT

Nov 23, 2018 19:02:11 GMT regack said:

I'm working on an update to this, with a bit of a "what to expect" kind of post, hopefully soon. Sorry for the delays.

Though I would add that the chances of a member actually getting banned (temporarily or permanently) are about 5%.

It's not something most posters should be preparing for...

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