List new, inactive, banned members?

[Cornucopia]

Considering some of the recent activity, I though that an additiona listing--maybe as part of the Videohelp News section or something, would be good for notifying the general membership of new arrivals ("welcome", etc) and new departures ("sorry to see you go", "good riddance", etc)

Just a thought...

Scott

[offline]

nice idea

[Supreme2k]

I think that it would be nice, but just as a stat. Kind of like how it shows the "joined" date.
Maybe in the profile, after a ban, it shhows "banned date", with a link to the "final straw".

To be quite honest, there's not a whole hell of a lot of people who care one way or the other, in terms of the sheer number of people here. If people have friends who come or go, they can PM or email that person. If they don't have even an email, then it ain't worth it anyway.

[MackemX]

good suggestion but isn't there 1500 new members who join in a month? Most depatures I've seen in recent times never really depart as most come back as this place is too good to stay away from 8)

As Supreme mentioned most don't really care and if you do and someone is banned then you can normally contact them another way if you already haven't got other contact info

I've been here a while now and given quite a lot of input but it's suffered this year so I'm leaving. See you all it's been good but I guess I serve no purpose to the forums any more

cheers 8)

[MackemX]

wow!

I'm back again but that was a long time and it was lonely. I didn't like it while I'd left as I was bored and missed you guys so I came back as I just know you all missed me just as much 8)

it's great to be back and thanks for all the support you showed me

[Denvers Dawgs]

lol......great post....you were missed while you were gone though....so don't ever leave again...

[lordsmurf]

I think that asking why a person is banned is better left to private messages with a mod.

[daamon]

Considering some of the recent activity, I though that an additiona listing--maybe as part of the Videohelp News section or something, would be good for notifying the general membership of new arrivals ("welcome", etc) and new departures ("sorry to see you go", "good riddance", etc)

Nice touch.

Maybe in the profile, after a ban, it shhows "banned date", with a link to the "final straw".

I agreed that a "banned date" could be useful. But I don't see the need for a link to "the final straw" - a bit of an unnecessary morbid fascination to my mind.

[jimmalenko]

There might be 1500 joining a month, but quite a few of these are not stayers and just want the couple of questions they have answered, without sticking around to then give back. Not that there's anything wrong with that; just the way it is. Or there's people that just want to get into OT so they need to register. For these reasons, I think a Welcome page is not required, as it's too much wasted work IMHO.

OTOH, "forced" bannings can be quite informational, and serve as real-time examples to all of the implementation of The Rules of the forum. I dunno about PM-ing a mod - how many times do you wish to repeat yourself ?

And how can you PM the member in question if they're banned ?

What about a field in their profiles, stating the reason they got banned ?

[offline]

What about a field in their profiles, stating the reason they got banned?

..or maybe those banned can pick their own message. What do you want for yours Scott?

Some bans are complicated. Suffice to say they died with their boots on

[jimmalenko]

What about a field in their profiles, stating the reason they got banned?

..or maybe those banned can pick their own message. What do you want for yours Scott?

"All he did was question the mods or RTP. We got sick of it / him"

[daamon]

What about a field in their profiles, stating the reason they got banned ?

A good suggestion - serves as a "real-time example" without satisfying morbid curiousity...

[thecoalman]

How about a linked flashing neon gif to replace there avatar?

[daamon]

How about a linked flashing neon gif to replace there avatar?

And for really bad offenders, publish details of their home address, telephone number etc. We could get jimmalenko p155ed up and send him round to "sort them out"... Rumour is he'll do anything for free beer.

[offline]

I know. Have a forum jail. Mods move the person to jail where he/she can't post outside of for the term of the sentence. Others can still visit & chat during visiting hours. Major offenders get sent to solitary where they can only lurk.

[jimmalenko]

I know. Have a forum jail. Mods move the person to jail where he/she can't post outside of for the term of the sentence. Others can still visit & chat during visiting hours. Major offenders get sent to solitary where they can only lurk.

As ridiculous as that sounds on first read, on 2nd, 3rd & 4th reads it's starting to grow on me

[painkiller]

In this instance, I have to agree with Lordsmurf.

While I think most folks here have their hearts in the right place, I wouldn't want anyone to come out of this thinking they were wrongly marked - or mislabeled.

My opinion, I would think it best to drop this issue.

But that's just me.

[daamon]

I know. Have a forum jail. Mods move the person to jail where he/she can't post outside of for the term of the sentence. Others can still visit & chat during visiting hours. Major offenders get sent to solitary where they can only lurk.

Brilliant suggestion... "Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Any More Yellow or Red Cards..."

[thecoalman]

I know. Have a forum jail. Mods move the person to jail where he/she can't post outside of for the term of the sentence. Others can still visit & chat during visiting hours. Major offenders get sent to solitary where they can only lurk.

Jail Mod... LOL. Courthouse the whle deal... it even comes with a little jail gif that I'm assuming goes over their avatar..... I should throw up a test forum on one of my sites and see how it works, sounds interesting.





jail.zip

[gll99]

I don't think a reason for banning would work

I tried a few test lines on for size and see how ridiculous it looks

Cornucopia banned
byline reason written by Lordsmurf
It's a secret quota thing no-one would understand
alternate byline by offline
Weird name had to go and didn't he suggest this?

jimmalenko banned
byline reason written by offline
Too smart, made us look bad so we snuffed him
alternate reason byline by lordsmurf
He was working me to death with the report thread so he had to go

daamon banned
byline reason written by offline
The last 3 guys I banned were in the USA so it's just an even up
alternate reason byline by lordsmurf
I was actually looking for a canuck but couln't find one

Denvers Dawgs banned
byline reason written by offline
he was directing people to
http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm
alternate reason byline by lordsmurf
What?? oh...I didn't want another 1000 post user

offline banned
byline reason by Lordsmurf
He wanted to be offline well he got his wish
alternate reason byline by lordsmurf
Just improving my mod seniority by one.
(ouch! me very bad my apologies)

gll99 banned
byline reason by lordsmurf
the guy just had no sense of humour
alternate reason byline by lordsmurf:
Just because I could and to get him for that previous crack
2nd alternate reason byline by offline
none (he was banned remember)

[jimmalenko]

nice work !

[Noahtuck]

jimmalenko banned
byline reason written by offline
Too smart, made us look bad so we snuffed him
alternate reason byline by lordsmurf
He was working me to death with the report thread so he had to go

Okay, that last line bout made me fall out of my chair laughing :P


Can't you guys get him for triple & quad posting on there :P

[MackemX]

I wasn't banned

[gll99]

I wasn't banned

Sorry Mackemx but we can't ban everyone there would no one left to post.

Actually I had a few more. One involved the name of a certain female member (clean) and another involving a mod but even in jest I thought the latter would be too cruel and cross the boundaries of fair play so I left it out. (not to mention I probably would have got my a$$ whipped)

Besides that, continuing this idea, although a lot of fun for me, would probably cause Cornucopia's thread to be moved to OT and me deemed a threadjacker 8)

btw) On subject here, as stated by offline in another thread, if problem threads are locked but mostly remain available to the membership at large then that should solve the issue raised here.