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[Rules] Allow permabanned members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:41 pmby Army of GOD
Concise description:- Let members who were banned permanently and/or for six months have a chance to appeal their bans through an e-ticket
Specifics/Details:- It is unfair that the max banishment has been reduced to 3 months, therefore users who have been banned permanently or for six months before the max ban was reduced should have the opportunity to appeal. If Team CC doesn't think their ban should be reduced or lifted, then no action is required. But at least allow the opportunity for an appeal.
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:- This is a user-active suggestion. Team CC doesn't have to go through EVERY SINGLE case. Only the cases that are being appealed through e-tickets
- Greatly better CC/member relations
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:42 pmby Army of GOD
And yes, I fully realize that if this suggestion gets support and is moved to the submitted sub-form, it'll be around 3-4 years until it is implemented.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:47 pmby BigBallinStalin
I'll volunteer to organize a committee to assess appeals, fine tune them, gather full information, and present the case to the mods in a concise yet informative format.
This will lower their costs associated with approving this proposal.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:48 pmby Metsfanmax
This would make sense if and only if the staff agreed that the system was previously unfair and they are correcting an injustice. But if the change was simply to adapt to a new culture in the community, then the old punishments made sense in the context of the CC community as it was in the past, so retroactively changing punishments doesn't make sense.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:50 pmby BigBallinStalin
Metsfanmax wrote:This would make sense if and only if the staff agreed that the system was previously unfair and they are correcting an injustice. But if the change was simply to adapt to a new culture in the community, then the old punishments made sense in the context of the CC community as it was in the past, so retroactively changing punishments doesn't make sense.
Why should that discretion to be left to the staff?
Previously, the discretion wasn't left to the staff on the 3-month rule, because the
CC members pushed for it via their own discretion...
Why are you arbitrarily changing the scenario?
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:54 pmby Army of GOD
Metsfanmax wrote:This would make sense if and only if the staff agreed that the system was previously unfair and they are correcting an injustice. But if the change was simply to adapt to a new culture in the community, then the old punishments made sense in the context of the CC community as it was in the past, so retroactively changing punishments doesn't make sense.
Why should that discretion to be left to the staff?
Previously, the discretion wasn't left to the staff on the 3-month rule, because the
CC members pushed for it via their own discretion...
Why are you arbitrarily changing the scenario?[/quote]
Well, it's ultimately left to the staff because they're the all-powerful decision makers here.
Though, I agree. Hopefully the staff has the sense to follow the requests of its members, even if they do think the bans were fair. If a large majority of users were to be in favor of this and the staff just sits there with their arms crossed, there will be a (bigger) rift which isn't good for a currently declining website.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:25 pmby clapper011
this could possibly work..if the banned/"returnie" would be under close supervision...and promise to behave, follow rules and guidelines etc. and If they crossed the line..... gone again... be like a second chance.. IF it were approved... I think it would ultimately be up to admin and the all "powerful" owner of this site. Just my 2 cents on this subject and not that of other "staff" members.
clappy
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
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Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:35 pmby Victor Sullivan
I like it. Clapper expresses my sentiments quite closely.
-Sully
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:53 pmby jefjef
clapper011 wrote:this could possibly work..if the banned/"returnie" would be under close supervision...and promise to behave, follow rules and guidelines etc. and If they crossed the line..... gone again... be like a second chance..
Those that come back from an extended forum ban, like when general Stoneham came back, were/are always under very close supervision. I seem to recall Andy following almost every single General post with one of his own.
But yes. In all fairness and good business why not have an appeal system. One that may actually be productive and not just one for show.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:02 pmby clapper011
jefjef wrote:clapper011 wrote:this could possibly work..if the banned/"returnie" would be under close supervision...and promise to behave, follow rules and guidelines etc. and If they crossed the line..... gone again... be like a second chance..
Those that come back from an extended forum ban, like when general Stoneham came back, were/are always under very close supervision. I seem to recall Andy following almost every single General post with one of his own.
But yes. In all fairness and good business why not have an appeal system. One that may actually be productive and not just one for show.
Yes..u will always get those that don't care or can't follow the rules after coming back..but why should 1 person ruin the chances for those that are sincere in wanting to return? A lesson finnaly learned if you will!... But again...only my opinion not that of anyone else mod or like.....
Clappy
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:07 pmby Army of GOD
poll added
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:39 pmby Victor Sullivan
"We, the jury, find the user...not guilty of trolling in the first degree."
-Sully
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:48 pmby squishyg
This seems quite fair. Does anyone know how many users this would even affect?
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:16 amby TeeGee
Theoretically if these users are allowed back onto the site and allowed to post in the forums they could be placed in a special category where their posts need to be approved by a moderator before being displayed.
Overall I like the idea
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:46 amby Army of GOD
People who are voting no, are you gonna stay in the shadows and not say why you voted no?
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:50 amby grifftron
Army of GOD wrote:People who are voting no, are you gonna stay in the shadows and not say why you voted no?
I voted "I dunno lol".. because this is a friggen game site, not like a went shopping at a store and was blamed for stealing a butterfinger bar... because I would appeal that!
Imma go back in the shadows now
-griff
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:26 amby Qwert
Army of GOD on Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:42 am
And yes, I fully realize that if this suggestion gets support and is moved to the submitted sub-form, it'll be around 3-4 years until it is implemented.
Good that you notice,these mean if someone ban today,need to waith 4 years to put appeal(ofocurse if these been acepted.
Well these sugestion depend on only one people oppinion, because you can have 100% support,lack can come here and say,"in your dream these will hepend", but lets pretend that lack say "Ok, i will implement that", then you will have second problem, what if MOd who permaban person,again need to read appeal,and to decide if he make "Mistake" and you know how for mods are very hard to say "i make mistake,sorry for you been innocent" . Also if you create separate commision who will check appeal, then you can have problem because Mods who kick player will be in bad relations with mods who will move people back,declare that these and these mod are made mistakes, and ban players without enough evidences.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
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Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:18 pmby notyou2
I
this initiative.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
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Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:20 pmby Metsfanmax
qwert, this has nothing to do with a particular mod making a mistake in banning someone. If an actual mistake was made handing out someone's decision in the past, then that should be corrected regardless of whether the six-month bans stay or go. If that was the correct decision at the time, in the sense that the community guidelines made it evident that a six-month ban was the next appropriate step of punishment for that user, then the only issue here is whether the community guidelines never should have been that way. That has nothing to do with the choices of an individual staff member but rather the culture of the community as a whole.
By the way, I'm still not sure of the logical connection between giving site-banned players a chance to appeal and a lack of six month bans. There's a huge philosophical difference between a definite length of time ban and an indefinite one.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:04 pmby Army of GOD
Metsfanmax wrote:There's a huge philosophical difference between a definite length of time ban and an indefinite one.
I guess, but they're similar in the idea that they were both, at separate times, the "maximum" ban. First permabans were the max bans and then CC reduced it to 6 months. I'm not sure if CC thought it was unfair and that's why they reduced it, but if it's unfair that permabans were handed it, then it's equally unfair that six month bans were handed out as well.
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:13 pmby squishyg
squishyg wrote:This seems quite fair. Does anyone know how many users this would even affect?
I'm bumping my question. I can only think of 2, maybe 3 perma-banned users. How many are there actually?
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:09 pmby rdsrds2120
For the same reason we occasionally have cases relooked into in the C&A forum, I support this idea as long as only permabanned people can appeal. Otherwise, there would be a lot of people trying to appeal even the minor things.
If the system was structured correctly, this could be a really nice gesture from the site to the community.
-rd
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:14 pmby rdsrds2120
squishyg wrote:squishyg wrote:This seems quite fair. Does anyone know how many users this would even affect?
I'm bumping my question. I can only think of 2, maybe 3 perma-banned users. How many are there actually?
I'd say there are about 30 that aren't spam/advertisers or multi's.
-rd
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Fri Sep 23, 2011 11:26 pmby Army of GOD
rdsrds2120 wrote:For the same reason we occasionally have cases relooked into in the C&A forum, I support this idea as long as only permabanned people can appeal. Otherwise, there would be a lot of people trying to appeal even the minor things.
If the system was structured correctly, this could be a really nice gesture from the site to the community.
-rd
So you don't think 6 monthers should be able to appeal?
Re: Allow permabanned/6 month ban members to appeal
Posted:
Mon Sep 26, 2011 12:16 amby BigBallinStalin
qwert wrote:Army of GOD on Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:42 am
And yes, I fully realize that if this suggestion gets support and is moved to the submitted sub-form, it'll be around 3-4 years until it is implemented.
Good that you notice,these mean if someone ban today,need to waith 4 years to put appeal(ofocurse if these been acepted.
Well these sugestion depend on only one people oppinion, because you can have 100% support,lack can come here and say,"in your dream these will hepend", but lets pretend that lack say "Ok, i will implement that", then you will have second problem, what if MOd who permaban person,again need to read appeal,and to decide if he make "Mistake" and you know how for mods are very hard to say "i make mistake,sorry for you been innocent" . Also if you create separate commision who will check appeal, then you can have problem because Mods who kick player will be in bad relations with mods who will move people back,declare that these and these mod are made mistakes, and ban players without enough evidences.
It seems that your living in Serbia over the years has undermined your faith in authority and its sincerity.