Posted by muffled on September 24, 2007, at 23:40:19
In reply to Re: making blocks board-specific, posted by Dr. Bob on September 24, 2007, at 22:55:58
> > How about making blocks board-specific, and leaving overall bans for the most egregious of offenses?
> >
> > Since Politics seems to be the most problematic for some posters, it may be necessary to take a break from that forum, without being exiled from the community as a whole.
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> I do think specific boards may be problematic for some posters, and I'd like to explore the idea of board-specific blocks in those cases.
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> What if a poster who was blocked and thought a particular board was problematic for them could ask to convert that general block into a block that was board-specific, but twice as long?*this would be via e-mail to you Bob, since they are unable to post?
WHAT is it w/you and length???
Anyhow, I guess if its just one board then its not such a big deal.
> The deputies and I would decide whether to make the conversion or not. If we did, and the poster was blocked again (or posted to the specific board, or to another board something that should've been posted to that board), then we'd convert the board-specific block back to a general block and extend it.*Decide to convert or not....just exactly WHAT criteria are you considering? It puts more power in YOUR court, you got ENUF power and control...
Extend it....there you go again...extend by how much? Just a week? or you gonna start to doubling and tripling etc again? I think turning it into a full block is proly punish enuf...Anyhow, there's some good ideas here.
I read the thread, and I must say, IMHO things HAVE in fact improved re: blocking. There ARE less blocks. There's been stuff thats been blocked in the past and thats let go now, and thats GOOD! Cuz some stuff truly WAS kinda overly rigid IMHO.
There's still plenty I don't understand though...
Thanks that you still trying to improve stuff i reckon.
Thats good too.
M
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