Banning

[potterfan3]

Dear Ed,
when you ban people why don't you tell them and why?

[HomerS1mpson]

Ed never does. I even wrote a personal email to ask this. Ed was kind enough to reply but I'm still not sure about what was being said.

[HomerS1mpson]

Every answer can be objected to. I think Ed should say which options were chosen as the reasons for the objections. Surely it's not a one-way ticket is it Ed? The answer or question just gets pulled without the originator knowing why. This must be in everyones' interest to try and avoid any future mis-understandings.

[rampart]

I think some of the edits are done by bots which is probably why there is no answer. It might be possible to write a script in the bot to tell us why.

I have heard that scripts can be written for chat bots to talk back to users.

[AB Editor]

Hi potterfan3

People are rarely "banned" - meaning their accounts terminated - and when they are the users will know why!

Here are the most popular reasons why users are removed from the ole AB: excessive profanity, constant abuse, pretending to be a 10 year old girl, spamming the site, trolling the site, advertising something, cyber stalking, exploiting our reporting function, "impostering", posting sexually explicit nastiness and of course cussing the Editor.

In regards to threads - this site is fundamentally moderated by peers and after a certain number of reports have been registered and the content is obviously not in keeping with the "AB way" it is removed.

In actual fact, most users of the AB do not have any or have very few removed posts and those are usually duplicates.

We are not planning on sending an explanation every time a post is removed, we simply do not have the technical resources to implement and manage it.

Hope this answers your Q!

[B00]

Yay to the pink box! I thought those lovely messages were a thing of the past with the introduction of the Blog thingy- nice to see ya (so to speak!) Ed :-}

[jno]

just 2 stars for AB Ed, potterfan? You are dicing with death.

[potterfan3]

jno i gave it 2 stars, because errrrrrrr well i didn't think it deserved 3 stars for some very strange reason