Man, you people love your drama. Barring any unforeseen inputs from the mod team, it was my intention from the start for the bans to be temporary. Skykid and Friendly will be unbanned some time tomorrow. Siren will be waiting a while longer.
Cagar wrote:auto-ban everyone who reaches 50% amount of total posts in off-topic.
Heh, something like "if your posts in Off Topic are over 50% of your total post count, Off Topic will become inaccessible until the ratio has been corrected" would be cool to see. Or for an even softer approach, we could prevent posts in Off Topic from incrementing one's post count altogether.
brentsg wrote:I'm sure it's some technically challenging thing in regard to forum software, but I still think it's really a necessity that people can "ignore" others. While never perfect, it has great potential to defuse personality conflicts that otherwise result in a lot of offtopic bickering.
Not that I ever made any significant forum contribution, but I know that several folks stopped visiting simply because a small handful of people got on their last nerve.
It's not, actually, the "Friends and Foes" feature comes standard with this version of the forum software. It's just been disabled, because adults should be able to handle themselves online with some decorum. Enabling it might indeed help in these situations, but it could also create a lot of confusion. Imagine a real-life situation where ten people are talking, but two of them can't hear each other at all, and one of them can't hear three other people but they can hear him. Not a perfect analogy, but you get the idea. Still, enabling it is something to consider.
