BitaTruble
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General info on bans as best as I can recall
This was an organized system based on a # count and the same number was applied across the boards.
This place was popping. Mods didnt have the time to read every thread much less every post. The first report on a thread would get that post reviewed and MAYBE a few back in the chain to see how that post came to be. I say maybe because OPs often got reported and there was no back story to read.
Three posts reported in a single thread resulted in a thread review, possible thread general warning, possibly a warning letter depending on how many previous incident counts were in queue against the person/people reported. The queue of counts could only be seen on the moderators thread which was closed and ghosted to the general forum members. It was the place we could all go to talk about anything and everything forum/chat related including current count levels of reported posters. This included forum and chat users. This is also where the mods could get together and use their voice to advocate for or against a post on a count in question. Believe it or not, some of you folks who got the gold did have advocates for you behind the scene..the advocate just wasnt able to make the case and you got a count. Most of those fell off with attrition because one of the reasons some might advocate for you was due to the rare nature of the gold you received.
If a report was not found to be actionable there was nothing added to the count list. If the report was actionable in certain areas (poster accidently posted in the wrong forum for example) that thread would simply be moved to the proper venue. No count would have made against the user as the assumption was made it was a simple mistake.
Generally, counts were only made against a user if there had been multiple reports over several different posts in a single thread or during chat.
A poster might have made 50 posts in a thread and 30 of them got reported but that would only have issued a single count if the reports were found to be actionable. One count per thread was the norm for most new instances.. (Warning letter had to go out, suspension..remember Awaiting Approval? ) Three counts in a thread (three separate posters) would close the thread to further posting until the entire thread could be reviewed. That could result in either a clean up or closure. Egging on was a good way to garner counts to a thread and made life really hard on the grunts. Serial reporters became another problem the mods had to endure and try to work around. One was hard enough and there were three or four of them generating report after report usually over issues which were not actionable.
Even if you got a count, there was an attrition rate and eventually you would get time off for good behavior, your count would go down and disappear. The mods would go back to ignoring most people until they threw some sparkly out that garned mod interest.
This was the system and it worked until the Top brass and the unhinged power struggle brought it all down and madness reigned.
That's my recollection of how it used to work for the road to banning.
In my opinion, that system worked well and it's a damn shame what happened because that really was the Golden age of CM.
On a side note.. Michael led me here..and it holds a very special place in my heart. He set a mostly amazing path for us and this place was just one of the fractals on our journey. Additionally and, probably more importantly, it would be sad for me to see this place go and have all the words in the archives here be lost. It would be a library closing and I am a reader above even writing.
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