New Rule Forbidding Banning

[BidenPresident]

Follow that advice, dummy.

fuck you. you're a waste

[Doc Dutch]

of course, no such person exists, my dear.

Which one?

[Doc Dutch]

The suggestion in this thread is how.

Ain't gonna happen. While this thread is great for advertising the weak-minded and cowardly thread-starters, like Earl, Moon and other douchebags, it won't change Damo's mind on it since the problem has been rehashed before.

To avoid the mistake of "repeating the same thing and hoping for different results", I suggest looking for alternate solutions. The best lesson I recalled from Dale Carnegie's book is that, if you want to persuade someone of something, don't push why you want it, push why they want it. Suggestions should be factual.

One example is that, too many thread bans limit conversation and, therefore, traffic. This is not in the forum's best interests if the forum is to grow. He can preserve the privilege of thread-banning, but limit them to 1-3 threads per day to encourage more posting or attracting more lurkers/newbies who dislike people like Earl, Moon and Legion.

Although I haven't counted them up, casual observation shows Earl's threads quickly die, probably after the usual echo chamber bullshit. Also note that "open" threads, even if dying quickly, average higher View counts.

As the second pic below displays, many threads die within a few posts, but a handful end up with high post counts. The totals of one regular page seem to far outweigh Earl's threads over three pages at a cost of wasted bandwidth with a similar result of clogging up the forum. Ergo, threads banning a high number of members waste forum assets.

In some ways, Rule #13 applies; posting multiple threads with high threadban counts (over 5?) ends up cluttering the forum and can be seen as "self-moderation" against the best interests of the forum.

Sure, preserve the right to thread ban, but let's be adults here...just like Rule #13 states: No Self-Moderation of the Board. Definition: making a thread unreadable through using extra large fonts or other means to block usage of a thread/forum. Rules will be enforced by the Administration or by Staff Members... Let's be adult here....

From last SEP/OCT to give them time. Note dates and last post date. The links are to a larger picture.

https://i.imgur.com/CiOQu1C.png


JPP OCT22: https://i.imgur.com/zt9N1Ev.png


In the end, it's Damo's call. Whining seems to work for the RWNJs so maybe it'll work here too.

[evince]

That we permit threads with wholesale bans on participation is asinine. One member does it repeatedly. Today the member launched five new threads each banning dozens of members who typically express political views at odds with his own.

Put an end to this.

Here’s how to deal with it


Start a thread of the same or near same title


Answer their remarks in your own thread while quoting their idiot thread


It makes them look real weak

[evince]

who fucking cares

Sometimes you are your own worse enemy dude

[martin]

Here’s how to deal with it


Start a thread of the same or near same title


Answer their remarks in your own thread while quoting their idiot thread


It makes them look real weak

Thanks. Yeah, I've actually done that a couple of times, against Earl's one thought threads.

[ThatOwlWoman]

This is about Earl's bans; he was doing it when I came here. Evading debate on a site intended for debate is exactly the point.

Maybe Damo needs to create a subforum called The Excessive Thread Ban Safe House, for tender buttercups like pEarl. Any massive threads posted elsewhere just get deleted.

That being said, I often thread-ban certain trolls and obsessed stalkers like TDAK, Primavera, CO/goat, etc.

[evince]

Thanks. Yeah, I've actually done that a couple of times, against Earl's one thought threads.

I have buried such threads and massively embarrassed posters this way



It’s cathartic


It also highlights how stupid it is to allow idiots to ban most of the site and offer a discussion topic

[ThatOwlWoman]

Checked how?

I support identifying cowardice 100%. A good way to identify the cowards, losers, liars and pedophiles is to let them identify themselves, then educate the rest of the forum on why they are not to be trusted.

Jus' sayin'.


PS, FWIW, threads like this help educate why those what ban others out of political disagreement and simple dislike are cowards.

I am NOT!

[Doc Dutch]

Sometimes you are your own worse enemy dude

...or dudette. Regardless of which gender, it's truth.

[Doc Dutch]

I have buried such threads and massively embarrassed posters this way

It’s cathartic

It also highlights how stupid it is to allow idiots to ban most of the site and offer a discussion topic

Ending up with a higher number of posters participating is a good form of revenge. Agreed, bury them with truth on another thread.

[Hawkeye10]

I dont always follow the rule myself, in part because I have gotten so little support for it, but I have long called for a community shunning of all threads with more than five threadbans.

I dont believe threadbanning should be allowed at all, but surely five is enough, more than that proves the lack of willingness to allow a fair fight.

[ThatOwlWoman]

I dont always follow the rule myself, in part because I have gotten so little support for it, but I have long called for a community shunning of all threads with more than five threadbans.

I dont believe threadbanning should be allowed at all, but surely five is enough, more than that proves the lack of willingness to allow a fair fight.

No, you haven't called for that. Almost all of your JPP posts are on your toxic girlfriend's thread, where far more than a mere "five" are thread-banned. You GossipGrrlGang members are so pathetically hypocritical.

[Doc Dutch]

I dont always follow the rule myself, in part because I have gotten so little support for it, but I have long called for a community shunning of all threads with more than five threadbans.....

The discussion here is more about persuading Damo to set a limit. Five is a reasonable number. I'd also recommend limiting threads-starts containing threadbans to two per day.

As pointed out in a previous post, threads with high threadban counts die quickly and clog up the forum...possibly in violation of Rule #13's "self-moderation" clause.

Let's be adults here.

[PostmodernProphet]

Martin's suggestions should be banned......