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Just outta curiosity, have you ever tried simply not filling in the date field of a blacklisting before?
Posted by: Reiginko
It seems to me that an option for group admins to permanently blacklist a member, rather than a super-extended temporary ban that lasts hundreds of years, could help the website run more efficiently and reduce server stress, and all that yib-yob.
For example, let's imagine I found a group, called Reiginko's Cheesy Combustibles. Now, this develops into a small tight-knit community, and all the members have a ball.
UNTIL ONE DAY, someone, (say, t his chump) joins Reiginko's Cheesy Combustibles, and starts spamming up the forums, and generally ruining everyone's day. So down swoops Reiginko, who unleashes the ninjas on him, extending the ban to, say, 2794.
Now here's what happens. Bungie.net is told that thirdlast may not return to Reiginko's Cheesy Combustibles for another 778 years, and that all of his posts are to be hidden until that time. What this means is that all of thirdlast's spammy junk is retained on the Bungie.net server, and all his posts are archived to be retrieved in 2794.
And here comes the suggestion. Why not add an option for admins to permanently ban members of their group, which deletes, rather than hides, all of thirdlast's posts. I mean, surely after a while all these posts that are being hidden will begin to account for a large amount of server space, and there's no real reason for them to be there.
I dunno, it just seems like a useful thing.