Rules around banning?

[TheUnworthy]

Feeling a little nervous after the recent thread that went 'poof' and reports of people being banned and not knowing why/not having any deleted posts beforehand.

Is there a three strike rule? No strikes?

That's a good idea worra. After jeffreygate I re-rugged with an old student email and don't check it much.

Also I got a PM and the notification didn't arrive in email for 24h or so, it was from another poster so all fine but if someone had got upset by GF, it could look like they were ignoring a warning they hadn't actually received.

It would make more sense Yonic because obviously HQ are going to want that person to stop doing whatever they're doing immediately.

But even if they do check their emails, they might not do it until the next day (if say they'd already checked that morning).

It's a very weird system.

I guess it's because some people have PMs turned off? Though I'd assume HQ could override that...?

Whoever said it's made up as it goes along is right.

I reckon I could have a wild stab in the dark of what it might have been, based on the name...!!

I've suggested that before worra but apparently they can't use PMs for warnings. Something to do with not being able to keep track of them if moderators are sending them from their accounts and are on different shifts iirc. I'm sure there were other reasons too. I must see if I can find the email...

I think it would make more sense - esp if they're just trying to give a warning to calm down/step away or if they've been getting lots of reports. You would see the notification immediately. It could be followed up by the email if they needed to have that as well.

The flaw in that brilliant plan might be... I've been on MN about a decade, use browser on my pc and app on ipad, and haven't the faintest idea what 'little symbol' is being referred to. I only know i've got a pm if I check my email. I don't think I'm particularly unobservant.

Really bumbley?

I'm just thinking that if people want to make double sure they're not receiving warnings they know nothing about, they can set their PMs to be emailed too.

I wonder how so many other forums manage this?

They could do both!

Errol a little dot should appear on the little person, top right. I'll pm you now

Isn't it a sort of little bell that appears beside the little person in the inbox icon, at an angle as if it's being rung to attract your attention? I've seen that on other sites too.

So TeacherBob went into the FWR and told them they were doing it all wrong, and it didn't go down too well?

Yep it's a bell.

Surely they could set it up to do both?

I'm on the app at the moment and theres nothing like that, are you talking about the browser UI? Will look on PC later.

Pan,yeah, who could have predicted that? he might have got away with it relatively unscathed (well, FWR always scathes mansplainers a bit) if he'd made his 'point' once, but it was soooo blumming repetitive. Maybe it was a pedagogic method for when infants don't understand something the first (or second or....ad nauseum) time, he felt he had to keep on till we'd mastered his lesson.

I think the picture of the closed envelope changes to a picture of a closed envelope on the app.

What envelope?

Well if people had just listened to the first point, then I wouldn't have had to keep rewording it to try and get them to make sense :p

'Well if people had just listened to the first point, then I wouldn't have had to keep rewording it to try and get them to make sense'

what's that saying about not being able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear?

Also if the didn't personally attack me and my job, I probably would have got bored and wandered off

What envelope? the inbox envelope.

Yes TB they just don't know they are onto a Good Thing even when we tell them. Repeatedly. Madness I tell you...

" I probably would have got bored and wandered off"

Ah. You want Dadsnet for that kind of posting pattern.