We are all One
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From the publically available info in the SF forum:
- 2011: 11
- 2012: 16 (which included 4 users with a bit higher post count; doesn't include bots, DLs, etc.)
Might have been more or less before, who knows...
Not discussing any particular moderator action, but say hypothetically someone posted a goodbye message for another banned member and was canned for it, and otherwise was an upstanding member of the community. Say hypothetically a former member showed up with a DL after several years but has exhibited good behavior and seems fully rehabilitated.
These are potentially easy cases to decide in favor of amnesty.
Posting a goodbye message for a permbanned user will not get you permanently banned around here - it might earn you a few days off though and in cases of otherwise unproblematic users will most likely not even lead to much more than a stern warning/infraction pm - having a user return after years with a DL is an interesting idea to ponder, though its rather hypothetical as those that actually are interested in coming back after a permanent ban tend to come back within days or weeks or months at the most and frankly I have yet to see a single instance in which we could argue that the user in question has reformed as in almost all cases such DLs are recognized by the same behavioral pattern that lead to the original ban.
16 is an inflated number - those were 3 OT users, 1 user from other parts, 2 self requested permanent bans and 10 bans from drive-by troll accounts (either DL accounts or real drive-byes) that frankly should just as well be categorized in the same manner as spam bots.
16 is an inflated number - those were 3 OT users, 1 user from other parts, 2 self requested permanent bans and 10 bans from drive-by troll accounts (either DL accounts or real drive-byes) that frankly should just as well be categorized in the same manner as spam bots.
Where did you get such excellent translation software? Your writing looks like a colonial's.
In the case of a DL exhibiting reformed behavior, I'd personally be inclined to grant amnesty. But in the case of a blanket amnesty, how do you tell if someone's been rehabilitated without giving them a chance?
Any other knowledge I have of permanently banned members here dates to mid-2010, and is probably publicly-intuited knowledge by now, anyway (since word does get around in emails, chat rooms, etc.). If you want the earlier figures, you should ask a current staff member.
Borachio
Way past lunacy
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I simply don't care. I use whatever language/idiom I think my interlocutor will understand.
(Generally speaking. Within the limits of my own natural inclinations and abilities.)
Well, it helps get the message across to them. I could(n't) care less myself. 
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
X-factor for banned people. Lets have a vote!
madviking
north american scum
i dunno, maybe you speak with relentless abaddon the possibilities are boundless
edit: maybe anarchy does work best?
It's all about context. There's nothing distinct about a banned account's username compared to an active account's username.
You can be denied posting privileges for mentioning an active member if you try hard enough (or post jerkishly enough).
Simply mentioning a user name, banned or not, isn't necessarily an issue (madviking's taunts aside
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Sometimes all it takes is for the active member to be needlessly offended at being mentioned in the first place. One of the moreIt's all about context. There's nothing distinct about a banned account's username compared to an active account's username.
You can be denied posting privileges for mentioning an active member if you try hard enough (or post jerkishly enough).
Simply mentioning a user name, banned or not, isn't necessarily an issue (madviking's taunts aside
virtually any post can be reported though, doesn't mean its disallowed as report does not equal moderator action against a post.
