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Originally Posted by yossarian  Temporary bans can be extremely effective ways to get the message across without totally alienating someone forever. A few forums I frequent do 3-day and 10-day bans for first offenses and it seems to work well. If someone continues the trouble they will do 6month bans, and they actually rarely do permanent bans. |
We used to do temporary bans of a few days. However, from what I've seen and heard, it never really worked. The behavior, after a while, resorted to what it used to be. Thus, the temporary bans tended to simply delay the actual permanent banning. That's why now we just pretty much just go straight to permanent banning, after all the warnings/discussions have been exhausted. However, I don't think we've tried 6 month banning yet.
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The nature of an internet forum is that it gets a lot of social runoff.. stuff people can't say in real life they vent on a forum instead and then feel bad afterwards. You tend to see a lot of people who were banned coming back 6 months later and being remorseful about it, and become constructive posters.
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That's pretty interesting.