Has anyone Ever been banned here?

Serris · **Reply #40 on:** July 30, 2009, 11:20:52 AM

Ban information should be like medical records, you are not allowed to divulge them if you have been given access to them (for administrative purposes only).

Nick22 · **Reply #41 on:** July 30, 2009, 11:24:05 AM

good point.. also sensitive information, about you, should not be divulged unless the poster himself posts it

Kor · **Reply #42 on:** July 30, 2009, 11:32:25 AM

Quote from: Nick22,Jul 30 2009 on 10:18 AM

Understansable... do you think your experiences there have helped you on here?

Not sure, I don't talk about those places much, and didn't mention it till recently I had been staff elsewhere in the distant past.

Nick22 · **Reply #43 on:** July 30, 2009, 11:44:19 AM

i should discuss your experiences Kor. Experience running a site can be very beneficial in determining what actions to take..

Kor · **Reply #44 on:** July 30, 2009, 11:56:49 AM

If you like. They were small sites that had as few problems as this one does. 1 site did occasionally have a guest who would appear, say something nasty then log off.

Malte279 · **Reply #45 on:** July 30, 2009, 01:12:24 PM

It is not the people who were actually banned here I am concerned about. They had their chances, they did not use them, they were banned as a consequence, anyone who bothers enough can look them up and that's that.
What I think most questionable about the request here was that it was for very private and personal information on members who are still active and that could potentially be used to embarrass members or worse. This is something we are not going to tolerate on the GOF.

Amaranthine · **Reply #46 on:** July 30, 2009, 01:14:20 PM

^Agreed. it's okay to be curious, but yeah, we don't want to embarrass anyone here.

Alex · **Reply #47 on:** July 30, 2009, 01:59:35 PM

While on the subject, I have an Alex Anecdote.

On the last forum (it was a game forum) I went to, I got upset, because people were trying to scam one member out of one of his game items. I tryed to stop them. One moderator deleted all my posts, put my warning thing up 3 notches or something like that, saying "you know what you were doing wrong, you were ruining a good gesture on (member's name)'s part." Of course, none of the moderators actually played the game, and they only liked people with a big post count. I sent her a big paragraph about how I was tired of the moderators doing such things. Long story short, my warning was set to it's last notch, my name was changed to "MODERATED", my avatar and signature were set to ones they liked, and one mod felt the need to say in the chatroom they had, things like "ahahahahaah ther's that guy I changed the name to lol", "how r u doing today , buddie? keeping out of trouble, I hope." "cause one more strike and you're out". I got banned of course, because of the things I did next. The point being, once I had the name change, everyone could never read my posts of course, they would always just look at the name.

Singling people out that have done wrong is never a good idea. People abuse that knowledge, and ruins any chance that the offenders themselves have of fixing their mistakes.