suspended and banned users

cazzz1975 | 11:36 Sun 31st Oct 2010 | Site Suggestions

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are suspended and banned users able to report threads?

if they are..why are they allowed to?

Netiquette

Are you pruning the old questions?

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jackthehat

I shouldn't have thought so, cazzz.
But I should imagine that after they have signed back in using another name, their first few minutes back are spent busily reporting their 'target'.........

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cazzz1975

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lol doc..I saw his concise reply yesterday as well ;)

cazzz1975

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maybe they use another sleeper id that they have had for a while, I have seen that on certain users when all their names have been suspended, people start appearing from 2005 ect lol

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jno

no, they're just like any other passerby: you can click on 'Report' but it then asks you to sign in. So they'd have to do it under another name.

cazzz1975

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so is a brand new user able to report a thread then?

boxtops

I understood that if you are suspended you can't do anything until you are reinstated, and if you are banned, you are gone. I wouldn't know how to reregister under another name, I've only got the one email address and that's what they go on, isn't it?

cazzz1975

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they must be I guess..

craft1948

I thought newbies couldn't report. They never used to be able to......

jno

it is, boxtops, but it only takes a few seconds to get a new hotmail or gmail address, and I imagine that's what people do.

jackthehat

I rather think that the type of personality who gets themselves regularly banned or suspended will have a handful of previously registered usernames to fall back on at such an eventuality...........

cazzz1975

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they shouldnt be able to really, I can imagine a massive abuse of the reporting system.

cazzz1975

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yes, I seen one a few weeks back jack, coming back from 2007, all past posts were troublesome, he was determined that he had turned over a new leaf. the reality was he was going through his back catalogue because he had been suspended so often

pastafreak

As jack said..they will have a reserve of names that have passed the initial 2 week period,and are ok to use.

jackthehat

Ex-unct-ly, cazzz.............ex-unct-ly ! :D

jno

if past offenders return and really have turned over a new leaf, fine, let them stay. A handful of long-term irritants have been permabanned, and that's okay by me; but if they come back and behave themselves and don't tell everyone who they really are and how clever they are, then no-one will be any the wiser.