That's the point, DRIVEN OFF.
It's over. Almost all the good productive members of SD.net have either left or been driven off over the past 10 years or so. They're not coming back and letting banned users back in is going to drive off everyone else who's worth having around.
Let me put it to you this way Muse...
If Aerius (I believe he's your brother in law) got perma-banned for something that should have only been a temp ban/cooling off ban, would you still post? Would J? Would any of their friends that joined because of them? (Assuming that any of their friends joined here, of course).
One 'over-ban', because someone might have been having a bad week (Aerius, a mod, or just a really touchy subject) and several people are now gone.
Or, again using Aerius as part of an example, gets into an argument with someone, and the other user gets banned.
That user whines to mod that is a friend, and gets let back on, and Aerius leaves in disgust. Would you still post? Would J?
Same effect, no?
My suggestion is to prevent, and possibly reverse those types of scenarios.
Case in point, how many times over the years have we seen certain 'senior' posters get banned, and then show back up? I know I've asked Tev about that on several occasions, and her answer was always 'they complained to someone else, and got unbanned.'
Hell, in the past, I didn't make a public complaint about it, for fear of that user complaining the the mod and getting me banned.
I'm hoping that a new Senate would prevent, or at least severly limit those scenarios. And the threat of a ban that the mods couldn't override, would at least give pause to those senior posters acting in a way that would be 'toxic'.
Could this be too little, too late? Sure, absolutely.
But,to quote a poet, wouldn't you rather 'rage, rage, against the dying of the light, instead of going gentle into that good night?'
Statistics: Posted by Solauren — 2024-08-21 12:11pm