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A and C, Rob wants to say:
I am not as stubborn as you might think, iwrbf :-)
Size matters :-)
iwrbf, you can't think of pprune as a hobby forum. It's a giganticly sized pile of people.
23% percent of the site visitors have no idea how a forum works. This is plain dangerous because even a few of these people can disturb the normal flow in a forum - not yet speaking about the possible legal issues of their actions...
The poster in this thread was banned because of some behaviour of this kind. I will not disclose why, maybe a moderator had just a gut feeling (intuition) and decided to protect the habitat of 375.000 users.
Quality over problematic quantity in individual decisions about people showing the "wrong" approach to this forum.
Or as I would say: Kick the few problematic ones out before they found a basis for trouble.
I DO understand this. I just wanted to suggest that the acting moderator shortly explains: "I have a reason for this".
Kind (and respectful) regards Rob,
Peter
Time does indeed change iwrbf.
What reinforces the policy is scale - not time.
What worked with 5000 signed up users becomes invaluable and essential with 375,000.
The advent of google and SEO means that an average 23% of visitors are first timers and the tiny proportion who aren't house trained becomes a very large number indeed.
Our chum at the top of the thread was one of them.
You either have a site run by real, active pilots or you substitute them with minimum wage cubicle bunnies in a glass office who can send out boilerplate explanations to the annoyed.
Or as I would say: Kick the few problematic ones out before they found a basis for trouble.
I DO understand this. I just wanted to suggest that the acting moderator shortly explains: "I have a reason for this".
Kind (and respectful) regards Rob,
Peter
Quite a few people, for example, have been banned for things they've sent (such as advertising or abuse) by PMs that you'd not even see on the forums.
I don't know in this case, as it wasn't me who banned him either.
Ultimately however, volunteer mods with limited time just can't go doing lengthy explanations (and subsequent arguments) with each banning.
Most people I've banned as a mod, it's been for blatant advertising.
G
I don't know in this case, as it wasn't me who banned him either.
Ultimately however, volunteer mods with limited time just can't go doing lengthy explanations (and subsequent arguments) with each banning.
Most people I've banned as a mod, it's been for blatant advertising.
G
