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Posted by: elmicker
Next up: Messages that just don't make sense.
You know who you are.It shows the power of the human brain that when I read that particular ban message I saw nothing wrong with it until it was pointed out. Once it was seen, it could not be unseen.
Posted by: elmicker
Posted by: Viva la VacheWho the -blam!- is malice?Odd trivia: I've seen this performed live and know the lead singer's daughter personally. Very pretty girl. I did have to work fairly hard to get a crowd singing 'Alice? Alice? Who the -blam!- is Alice?!', though.
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Remember how it used to be? 7 and 14 or permas? We would have to warn publicly (which was determined to be a calling out, embarrassing, and harmed the delicate psyches of our more sensitive members) or we could send PM's (normally ignored). So, 3 day bans were created and they were "the warning".If I'm honest, public warnings are the best kind of warnings. The main problem with public warnings is that there's no kind of record of them, so combining a public warning with a Soul warning allows for other moderators to keep track of warnings while also providing a useful note to the rest of the community.
Allowing you to create a warning post, which in essence automatically sends a warning to the user in question linking back to the warning post, might be a nice touch.
Moderators being active and saying things like 'stay on topic chaps, try not to bump between updates unless it's actual discussion' and so forth works. Some days a public warning is beneficial to the community, other times a private warning might be more relevant.
I'm fairly certain that in almost every ban or warning I've received (bar the first, the second was fairly obvious as well, though I asked anyway) I've asked for clarification on what it was for. The shorter the ban length, the more confusing the reasons seem to get. Of course, actually appealing a ban that short is a nightmare, and usually devolves to "let's be honest, you probably deserved a ban for something at some point, so this is just karma" whenever you attempt it.
They're hardly self explanatory, and they aren't linked to the post, either.