To moderators concerning banning

[WillowIX]

Thank you Memnoch for the last post! The TOS lists what causes the ban but not what the ban includes (if you can call it that lol).

[johnny]

So i'm curious, did you mods have to ban a lot of people in the past, or are the IW visitors mostly friendly people ?

[Megabot]

1. Locking someone's account for x number of days - this is usually for repeated infringements. At the end of the suspension period the user can then post again.

I ALMOST got this one so it is hard to be a crazy IW member lol!

[skywalker]

Originally posted by Attalus: Oh, yeah, she's banned, see here: http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/cg...;f=10;t=009854

I see. The reason I thought she wasn't banned was because I thought when you look at a post written by a banned member, it would read "unregistered" and I did not see it under her name.

I stand corrected.

Mark

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by skywalker: quote: Originally posted by Attalus: Oh, yeah, she's banned, see here: http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/cg...;f=10;t=009854

I see. The reason I thought she wasn't banned was because I thought when you look at a post written by a banned member, it would read "unregistered" and I did not see it under her name.

I stand corrected.

Mark[/QUOTE]It is possible she is merely "suspended", that would explain why her account wasn't fragged (which would have caused the "unregistered" part to show).

[The Hierophant]

Originally posted by Memnoch: There are three stages of "banning", so to speak: 1. Locking someone's account for x number of days - this is usually for repeated infringements. At the end of the suspension period the user can then post again. 2. IP banning - this will prevent the user from posting using that IP address, irrespective of which username they use. This is for serious offences - abuse of moderators/admin/other members despite repeated warnings, or posting pornography/piracy links, etc. 3. IP subnet banning - this will prevent the user from posting using the entire subnet being used (eg. 26.24.*.*). This can mean that if a user is posting from a school, the entire school network will not be able to post. This is only done for serious repeat offenders who keep coming back to cause trouble after being banned. Anyone can view anything here - we don't make viewing a member-only privilege. That's why you see Guests showing up in the "Recent Visitors" list. Hope this helps. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Thanks, answered all my questions there [img]smile.gif[/img]
Cheers.

[250]

and do they excersize their priviliges well, heh

[slackerboy]

Originally posted by johnny: So i'm curious, did you mods have to ban a lot of people in the past, or are the IW visitors mostly friendly people ?

there have been some epic tales over the time we've been around
The attack of Big Bagger,
The imfamous forum wars,
and others that are not coming to me right now.

[Harkoliar]

3. IP subnet banning - this will prevent the user from posting using the entire subnet being used (eg. 26.24.*.*). This can mean that if a user is posting from a school, the entire school network will not be able to post. This is only done for serious repeat offenders who keep coming back to cause trouble after being banned.

the only problem here is when other people of the same school and uses the same ip subnet goes to IW and find themselves banned because someone was an a**h***

[LennonCook]

Originally posted by slackerboy: quote: Originally posted by johnny: So i'm curious, did you mods have to ban a lot of people in the past, or are the IW visitors mostly friendly people ?

there have been some epic tales over the time we've been around
The attack of Big Bagger,
The imfamous forum wars,
and others that are not coming to me right now. [/QUOTE]More recently, the Istaron affair...