Whats The Point Of Banning

[nailit]

on sites like this?
People only have to re-register with a different nic under a throwaway email?

[Mamyalynne]

May make some think about their behaviour but it doesn't last long usually.

[scooping]

Because having been banned people might either get the message or prefer to take their custom elsewhere?

[hc4361]

On a forum that I moderate I can see much more than the user name and email address

[ummmm]

Because loads of the trouble makers/rude people rethink their behaviour if they want to use the site.

[SIRandyraven]

Come in via different IP address also.

[SIRandyraven]

And grow a beard and colour your hair a different colour.

[EcclesCake]

Is it not a time out on a naughty step to give them time to consider their conduct.

It works for some but the more arrogant members shrug it off and get even more belligerent.

[Buenchico]

As Nailit says, troublemakers might well return under a different username but they tend to give themselves away very easily. (Any 'new' member who clearly already knows everyone here is going to watched very carefully by the mods!)

However they generally seem to give up in the end, with two of the worst offenders (usually taking usernames beginning with 'Le' and 'Kn') hardly ever showing up these days. (Alternatively, of course, they might both have 'cleaned up their acts' and now be regular and pleasant contributors. I can't see that it would matter if they are here like that, as the purpose of banning someone is only to keep the site 'clean' and not to be vindictive).

[nailit]

I'm sure that I had another post under this one? Perhaps I'm going nuts. Am I going nuts?
Chris, please help?
Am I going nuts?

[woofgang]

sometimes posts vanish until the next post is made

[Buenchico]

You're probably going nuts then, Nailit!

(Don't worry. Most of us here reached that stage a long time ago!)

Nobody's removed your post, so either you didn't post it or you accidentally put it on the wrong thread.

[nailit]

no worries Chris, I'm definetly goin nuts.
side effect of been an ABer........

[Jackdaw33]

You're nuts, M'Lord.
You're crackers, M'Lady.

(With apologies to Ronnie Barker)

[Mamyalynne]

Interesting point Jordy , however if you want a member of a paid Editorial team to be on duty 24/7 and vet every post that comes up then we are going to have to start paying to use their site.

Editors ban members when they break the Site Rules which are clearly displayed and accessible to all.

[Jackdaw33]

Nailit makes a valid point, but as Chico says, most give themselves away early on, especially those who re-register with a user name very similar to their original one.

[Buenchico]

Jordyboy9:
The site editors are almost certainly employees of AB's sister company Silverdisc Ltd (which shares the same address and phone number as Answerbank Ltd), who spend most of their time (during normal office hours) trying to sell online advertising space (because that's what Silverdisc does).

Editing this site will be very much a 'sideline' for them, so there's no way that they can continually monitor posts even during office hours (and certainly not at the time of day/night when I'm posting this). A small firm such as AB, operating out of an office in Kettering, can't possibly afford to pay for full-time editors to monitor this site; that's why unpaid moderators are needed here.

The nearest equivalent to this site in the USA, Answerbag.com, closed down because the site owners couldn't get to grips with the problem of site moderation. (It was constantly full of spammers and trolls). It was then bought by new owners, who promised that everything would be OK. However, once again, they failed to appoint reliable moderators and the site was rapidly filled with meaningless rubbish.

The other big US Q&A (answers.yahoo.com) site is owned by the mighty Yahoo, who aren't short of a dime or two, but that also is now unusable because it's full of spammers and trolls. (i.e. they've also not got to grips with moderating the site's content).

There used to be a chat site specifically for UK members over 50 years of age (which is the sort of thing which might well have appealed to many AB members) called SagaZone. As the name suggests, it was run by the masive Saga Insurance group of companies. However that also had to close down because of the activities of trolls. (Yet again, another example of what happens when site owners can't work out how to deal with the problems of monitoring and editing site content).

Like it or not, Jordyboy9, sites such as this one NEED moderators!

[ducksie]

Good answer there Chris and I don't doubt a site needs moderators, what I wonder though is,how the editors can know they are not recruiting banned moderators (who have returned) and not let site go to rack and ruin like sites all you mentioned above (Good morning btw)

[ducksie]

that shoud be banned users coming back and recruiting them as moderators

[Eleena]

True. I suppose it throws a temporary spanner in the works, then they're back under a different guise, as translucent as before and just as boring, and we play along or ignore.