In View Of The Janegrey Suspension, Are Hypothetical Questions Proscribed On Answerbank ?

[Canary42]

In view of the Janegrey suspension, are hypothetical questions proscribed on Answerbank ?

[craft1948]

Not as far as I'm aware........

[Svejk]

A hypothetical question, imo, ought to start with 'what if' or 'supposing I' or somesuch to flag it up as hypothetical.
Don't you think there's something rather cruel in posting imagined dilemmas as real.
Doesn't particularly worry me as I'm not what you'd call a caring person but what a kick in the teeth for those that are and pour their hearts into helping others.

[factor-fiction]

When it's a banned/suspended user who keeps returning so often under new names I think it's probably the ed's view that further posts from that user should be stopped by either suspending or banning. I think it has been said before that sometimes a suspension (albeit a permanent one) may be used rather than a ban as a ban would remove all the thread including answers which some may find useful.

[factor-fiction]

^...so the reason for the suspension is who the user is rather than the fact that the question may or may not be hypothetical.

[murraymints]

I'm impressed that you could tell who the op was !

[joggerjayne]

// so the reason for the suspension is who the user is rather than the fact that the question may or may not be hypothetical //

So, as regards the question, we were just speaking hypothetically?

[factor-fiction]

Maybe or maybe not, jayne. It's too early in the morning for me to work that one out. I've got to save my brain cells for work later

[murraymints]

Seems that way jj..although it was posted as a real life dilemma

[factor-fiction]

I think JJ was referring to Canary42's question here, but I'm not fully awake yet

[joggerjayne]

I think we are drifting into the realms of hypotheticalness (real word ???) and we will all be suspended, lol

[murraymints]

Ah ...I see ....I think ! Lol

[jno]

nothing I can see int he rules proscribing hypothetical questions, but there is one forbidding multiple usernames, so the poster in question may have been banned for that. If she was banned, her posts will vanish too. (If she was just suspended they mightn't be.)

[Zacs-Master]

I thought threads about suspended users and / or previous posts were banned?

[Mamyalynne]

I agree with others, if the question is hypothetical then it should be flagged as such.

Saying 'I did and oh my look what happened!' - is preying on the good nature of ABers, my opinion of course.

[jno]

a form of trolling, I'd say, Mamya. And tremendously bannable, if provable.

[Prudie]

I'm impressed you all knew what proscribed meant - that's my word for today learned.

[EcclesCake]

It is not unusual for hypothetical questions and scenarios to be played out on fora.

The likes of Second Life were very popular amongst psychologists for running scenarios.

Declaring it as a hypothetical question renders it null and void.

[AB Editor]

It's a troll... I wouldn't worry about it too much.

[Canary42]

Thanks Ed.

P.S. I do tend to agree with those of you stating hypothetical questions should be identified as such.