Ban List

cshellenberger · 09-05-2009, 10:24 PM

Well first of all, it's NOT a public forum, it's PRIVATELY owned. Second, there are things such as personal information that we do NOT share. That would include your email address (yes people can email you IF you chosse allow it, but it's through the forum and they never see your email address) IP address and other things a hacker or spammers could use. We also do not publicize why we ban people. Honestly that's between us and the banned person and not the business of the rest of the membership.

RonE · 09-05-2009, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by LeRoymydog

What's privacy mean on a public forum?

It means that some issues between members and moderators are nobody else's business.

Keep in mind that this forum is publicly-accessible but privately-owned. The owners decide what policies will be best for the forum and its members and publicly outing banned members doesn't fall into that category.

Edit: Carla, we gotta stop meeting like this.

LeRoymydog · 09-05-2009, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by cshellenberger

Well first of all, it's NOT a public forum, it's PRIVATELY owned. Second, there are things such as personal information that we do NOT share. That would include your email address (yes people can email you IF you chosse allow it, but it's through the forum and they never see your email address) IP address and other things a hacker or spammers could use. We also do not publicize why we ban people. Honestly that's between us and the banned person and not the business of the rest of the membership.

It might be privately owned, but it is still a public forum. Anyone can access it. You don't have to be a member to access the forum. I wasn't trying to start anything, I just thought it was kinda a silly thing to say is all.

Darkmoon · 09-06-2009, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Curbside Prophet

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rofl! That was great!

Mdawn · 09-06-2009, 08:46 PM

I honestly just don't see the point. If the wide majority of members that are banned are spammers then I don't see why the regulars really care one way or another to know the reason of why a member that they more likely haven't even seen a post from is banned. I certainly don't.

And in the rare occurrence that a regular is banned...then most of the other regulars probably know somewhat the reason anyway or at least can guess by reading past posts. *shrug*

Just doesn't make much sense to me one way or another to have a complete list and the reasons why someone is banned. Just my 2 cents.

Kayota · 09-07-2009, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by cshellenberger

If we didn't we either would have banned most of the members of this forum or we wouldn't be here.

This.

And for god's sakes, you have to have a sense of humor to be able to live with a dog!

trumpetjock · 09-08-2009, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Mdawn

And in the rare occurrence that a regular is banned...then most of the other regulars probably know somewhat the reason anyway or at least can guess by reading past posts. *shrug*

This.

I've had several good friends and mentors that were banned for various reasons. Within a few minutes of PMing others on the board I was able to find out exactly what happened.

yappypappymom · 11-01-2009, 02:11 AM

Maybe a couple months shy on this topic, but...from MY experiance in other forums...Banned means banned, & if ANYONE even brings up anything to do with a banned member, well,...they soon join them...Banned = "don't talk about-EVER" where I am from!! (if this hepls in any way)

FaithFurMom09 · 11-01-2009, 02:16 AM

Im late to the party too yappy. haha.

The list of banned members would be long. Im willing to bet 9/10 would be for Spam not for anything else. Thats just based off the few banned members I have seen in my short time.

RonE · 11-01-2009, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by yappypappymom

Maybe a couple months shy on this topic, but...from MY experiance in other forums...Banned means banned, & if ANYONE even brings up anything to do with a banned member, well,...they soon join them...Banned = "don't talk about-EVER" where I am from!! (if this hepls in any way)

This is not other forums, so your experience doesn't translate. If it did, I guess you'd be banned.

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Originally Posted by FaithFurMom09

Im late to the party too yappy. haha.

The list of banned members would be long. Im willing to bet 9/10 would be for Spam not for anything else. Thats just based off the few banned members I have seen in my short time.

2-6 spammers are banned each day. It would be a very long, mind-numbingly boring list. For every spammer you see, there are dozens that you never see, since we delete every trace of their sad, short lives on the forum.

Cracker · 11-01-2009, 11:02 AM

I think I would die of embarrassment if I ever got banned...lol.

Though I do wonder sometimes...gee I haven't seen "so and so" for a while? But curiousity is not always a good thing to be sated.

canteloupe · 11-01-2009, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by RonE

2-6 spammers are banned each day. It would be a very long, mind-numbingly boring list. For every spammer you see, there are dozens that you never see, since we delete every trace of their sad, short lives on the forum.

I think in the past I've noticed that with non-spammers, sometimes just the offending post is deleted and they are banned, but their other posts remain. And sometimes everything is deleted, making threads kind of nonsensical. How do you guys determine what gets deleted?

cshellenberger · 11-01-2009, 05:21 PM

We delete posts that may be offensive due to languge or personal insults (name calling). if here is an emergency such as a really virulent troll we will occasionally use the quick ban we use for spammers which deletes the offensive post and bans the member at the same time. We may not delete all a banned members posts if they've been here for a long period of time or have a high post count as it would be a huge amount of work. This may be what you're seeing. I try to clean up a thread so it flows well, but that can be hard to do especially if the post in question has been quoted by several members as we also have to clean those responses as well. This is why it's best NOT to respond to an offensive post, but just to report it and move on.

canteloupe · 11-01-2009, 09:42 PM

Makes sense. Thanks for responding.

meghf · 11-01-2009, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by cshellenberger

We delete posts that may be offensive due to languge or personal insults (name calling). if here is an emergency such as a really virulent troll we will occasionally use the quick ban we use for spammers which deletes the offensive post and bans the member at the same time. We may not delete all a banned members posts if they've been here for a long period of time or have a high post count as it would be a huge amount of work. This may be what you're seeing. I try to clean up a thread so it flows well, but that can be hard to do especially if the post in question has been quoted by several members as we also have to clean those responses as well. This is why it's best NOT to respond to an offensive post, but just to report it and move on.

Not a job I want! Thanks for all your hard work. Hope you mods are getting paid the big bucks for all you do! :-)

cshellenberger · 11-02-2009, 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by meghf

Not a job I want! Thanks for all your hard work. Hope you mods are getting paid the big bucks for all you do! :-)

ROFL, we're volunteers. The only 'payment' we get is the satisfaction that our site is kept family friendly and as spam free as any site like this can be.

Curbside Prophet · 11-02-2009, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by cshellenberger

The only 'payment' we get is the satisfaction that our site is kept family friendly and as spam free as any site like this can be.

That's not true. I also get the satisfaction of posting photos of anteaters in my favorite threads.

cshellenberger · 11-02-2009, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Curbside Prophet

That's not true. I also get the satisfaction of posting photos of anteaters in my favorite threads.

Love that picture, but that's something all the members can do and enjoy. I was really talking about the 'rewards' of moderating. Although Troll fighting can be pretty fun at times, makes me like Don Quixote tilting Wind Mills