[wp-forums] B-Coded user

[Francisco de Azevedo]

Yeah, I guess it is a little overkill and it might alienate users more than
anything else.
My concern had more to do with contributors / users ratio: it is already
low enough as it is to allow people to discourage contributors with their
attitude.
But I guess there is little one could do about this, other than keep
politely requesting that people abide by the Forum Rules.
Enjoy your weekend, everyone.
Cheers!

Marv


On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Andrea Rennick <andrea at ronandandrea.com>wrote:

> What Jan said. :)
>
> a.
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Francisco de Azevedo
> > <frandeazevedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Do you mean a list if usernames, as a public shaming?
> > >>
> > > Yeah, something like that, a hall of shame of sorts. It doesn't
> > necessarily
> > > have to be tied to the bozo list actually.
> >
> > While that may be (temporarily) satisfying, I think that'd be counter
> > productive. People misbehave sometimes and we've all sent out
> > communications that later on we thought "WHOA. What was I on that
> > day??"
> >
> > Everyone should get at least one second chance, preferably many. ;)
> >
> > The b-code just puts them in the timeout room. It doesn't block or ban
> > them, it just means a moderator has to approve their post before other
> > people can see it.
> >
> > If they fly straight then they'll get to play with the other kids
> > unsupervised. If they don't, then any new offending posts will/can be
> > deleted and they stay in the timeout room longer.
> >
> > Having a public shame list won't encourage people to behave and would
> > possibly just start more fights. We wouldn't want that.
> >
> > I mean really, WordPress has got a cool community and we want to
> > encourage people to play nicely using pleasant means.
> >
> > Jan Dembowski
> >
> > PS. That doesn't mean I'm opposed to banning outright repeat
> > offenders, there are limits after all. But that's a last resort IMHO.
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