01-11-2009, 05:02 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: on God's beautiful earth, in heaven :), & you?
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Originally Posted by yossarian  Other successful forums that have been around for decades
have introduced the concept of "temporary bans" to give people cooling off periods.
You guys might consider this. I believe the current forum software supports it.
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.
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. | Good post!  |
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