Good users are not being banned. People who can't manage the rules are being banned. People who tell people to kill themselves, their family, etc... They go away.
Some people here maintain columns here, dozens of them, for no other reason than to annoy and torture the people who come here seeking answers to serious questions. Those people are easy to spot, they have never given a single helpful answer to anything.
People who are underage get sent away, for obvious reasons.
If you have a specific case of a user you think was good, as in a real asset to the site, would you please e-mail me their username?
If there is anyone here who has been banned for no reason, you just let me know and it will get fixed.
Karen answered Saturday August 27 2005, 5:36 pm: We don't ban "good people" on this site. If they violated the Terms of Service conditions or did something that eventually leads to a banning such as "posting any material which is knowingly false and or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law," then this is why they were banned.
xXxpinky615xXx answered Saturday August 27 2005, 12:44 pm: Mod's don't ban "good" people. If in your eyes they are "good" people, then they are in your eyes. Obviously it didn't seem that way to moderators, or else they would not have been banned.
Could you possibly give an example as to what "good" person was banned? Then maybe we'd have a better understanding.
Those good people must've done something wrong to get themselves banned. We don't ban for no reason.
Teza answered Saturday August 27 2005, 10:50 am: If they were "good" people they wouldn't of gotten banned. They might of got banned because they just love to give crappy advice and be funny and have couple of accounts to harass people. Some people got banned because they were too young and got caught. I hope everyone by now knows you have to be 13 and older! You can also get banned for typing in all CAPS. But still, the good people are still here. =) [ Teza's advice column | Ask Teza A Question ]
LoveNJstyle answered Saturday August 27 2005, 8:22 am: well i, as well as the people who arent banned, would like to think of ourselves as "good" people. you can get banned for bad behavior just like you can get a DT for it at school. all the 12 yr olds get banned, people with extremely rude remarks get banned and anyone who doesnt type in english also gets banned. so really, you have to completely distroy the site before getting banned and thats not a "good person" quality. <3 [ LoveNJstyle's advice column | Ask LoveNJstyle A Question ]
Mackenzie answered Saturday August 27 2005, 5:34 am: Why would "good" people be banned? If they're banned, they can't be all THAT "good", Hun. Maybe they have something helpful to say, as far as advice goes, but what if they go around making racist comments?? That's a reason for ban. What if they lie about their age? That's a reason for ban. What if they type with total disrespect for the English language? That's a reason for ban. They might give good advice, but that does not secure their protection. If they slip up baddly enough.. or simply one too many times... they too might receive a ban.
MFS answered Saturday August 27 2005, 2:12 am: banning the "good" people?
No... we've banned some people who were using multiple accounts to harass others. We had to cut a few people off because they enjoyed telling people to do dangerous and/or illegal things. And a few were banned for other abuses they were performing on the site (yes, abuses, not just giving bad and/or "funny" advice). [ MFS's advice column | Ask MFS A Question ]
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