If no one objects to these bans, why not have a rule mods can point to? Less importantly, it’s possible some offenders didn’t even know it wasn’t allowed, and this could help with that.
ETA: I’m not gonna delete my post, but I realize now I probably misunderstood your post. This is another reason why I think these should be two separate discussions.
The only problem with letting self-banned use gimmicks is that it leads to more work when those gimmicks get reported by community members for by-passing bans.
Yes. People have objected to banning new accounts that were created to circumvent bans. IRRC someone complained when the mods banned one of Victor’s alts that he used to post while banned. I believe they cited the informal practice of allowing people to circumvent bans. So yes, in my opinion we need a rule on this, because when there is no rule and a mod exercises their discretion, someone will find a way to complain about it.
Maybe we’re not as far apart as I thought, and that includes 6. He made a post yesterday about how modding can be as simple as,
“hey you’re banned.”
“why?”
“bc fuck you, that’s why.”
I’m all for moderation like that. Basically you guys are saying the existing mods should just say “fuck you” to the non-stop whiners and move on? I’m down with that.
It’s one of the annoying (is there any other kind) 22 carry-overs … “I’ve got an exam in 2 days please temp-ban me as I have zero self-control”. They shouldn’t even be a thing.
Does the throttling process increase the window for Comments being Requested? Because honestly you can only put like two or maybe three Comments per day in a thread throttled as such. Like in an unthrottled thread where Comments are being Requested you can put in five, six, seven comments in a day or more. Here the Comments are quite limited.
Gimmick accounts used to circumvent an actual ban should be permabanned (the gimmick, not the users actual account). A gimmick may be used only to PM a mod to discuss the reason for their ban.
If a gimmick account is used to circumvent a self ban, then the posters self banned account should just be unbanned at that point.
Seems like a relatively straightforward way to handle all of this moving forward. Anyone opposed?
I agree with all this. Sorry, I didn’t mean to be snitty.
My preference would be to ban the gimmick and keep the self-ban in place, but it’s a judgement call imo. It’s not really fair to force the mods to make this decision.