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That needs to stop. Not one of the accounts I've come across has done anything outside of the guidelines and often are contributing substantive comments.
by aliqot 4y ago
That needs to stop. Not one of the accounts I've come across has done anything outside of the guidelines and often are contributing substantive comments.
- minitech 4y ago> Not one of the accounts I've come across has done anything outside of the guidelines How do you know that? (And/or how do you know the multi-account history of the people using the accounts?) Some might also be caught up in IP-address-based bans, but for accounts like this I expect there’s a reason they remain banned.
- aliqot 4y agoIf someone's turned over a new leaf and hasn't committed any infractions on this new account, then we have to ask ourselves: is putting a permanent stain on their IP going too far? It's communicating that you're so odious we think you'll never change and those in your household will also be the same.
- jjulius 4y agoYou are not going to be able to see any flagged comment in a user's comment history, unless you responded to it yourself prior to it being flagged. Edit: Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThere's a flagged and dead comment elsewhere on this page that shows up just fine when I view the user's comment history.
- CommieBobDole 4y agoWeird. I also have 'showdead' set to on, and I would say that for 80% of the banned accounts I see, it is immediately obvious why they're banned, because it's right there in the dead comment. Another 10% are 'huh, this is an insightful substantive comment, why is this person banned?', and I usually find it a couple of pages deep in their comment history; usually something along the lines of someone who writes substantively on a number of issues but has one that they just spew insane malicious vitriol about every time it comes up. And finally, yeah, there's 10% or so that seem to have been banned for no discernible reason and don't even seem to be aware that they're banned.