Bannable Offenses

[Cosmic]

What offenses, in your book, deserve a permanent ban with no warning, no mod queue, or anything like that? Other than being a spam bot, of course. 😛


I would say:
- Scamming
- Hacking
- Personal threats
- Revealing personal information maliciously
- Illegal activity which would harm another person
- Severe instances of cyber bullying

Basically, anything which has severe real world consequences. As long as trouble is confined to the forum, it's fine, but if something posted or done on a forum effects the real world, that simply cannot be tolerated.

What about you?

 

[Agent_Zero]

Hacking for sure and anything that would actually hurt a member or the site like somehow scamming financially.

Anything illegal.

I'm a little lenient so far but we will see how that changes with time.

 

[Foster]

I wouldn't say "severe" issues of cyberbullying. I would say all issues of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has become a major problem in today's society. As for the other offenses, all of them would be the cause to being permanently banned.

 

[John]

I wouldn't say "severe" issues of cyberbullying. I would say all issues of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has become a major problem in today's society. As for the other offenses, all of them would be the cause to being permanently banned.

Not necessarily . Severe bullying is threatening and abusing someone online. While other types could be something like changing avatars to someone else's avatar, which might "offend" the other person.

I agree with everything in that topic, Sinon. Though, I would reclassify "cyber bullying" to abuse of a fellow member.

 

[Cosmic]

I wouldn't say "severe" issues of cyberbullying. I would say all issues of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying has become a major problem in today's society. As for the other offenses, all of them would be the cause to being permanently banned.

Not necessarily . Severe bullying is threatening and abusing someone online. While other types could be something like changing avatars to someone else's avatar, which might "offend" the other person.

I agree with everything in that topic, Sinon. Though, I would reclassify "cyber bullying" to abuse of a fellow member.

I referred to it as Cyber Bullying for the legal connotations, although Severe Abuse of a fellow member would probably also fit the bill.

All cases of abusing a fellow member are definitely severe matters. Some are worse than others, though. If you consider all instances of "cyber bullying" to be perma-ban worthy, then you get into a tough spot when you encounter areas where flaming and cyber bullying are effectively the same thing, and most moderators would say that flaming is not an offense worth of a ban on the first infraction.

So, in the context of a single offense, I would classify severe cyber bullying, or severe abuse of a member, as:

- Telling a member to perform acts of self-harm
- Posting content which severely degrades and denies another user's value as a person.
- Severe instances of hateful, bigoted, sexist, racist, or homophobic remarks.

Also, continual offenses could accumulate to the point where it could be classified as "severe cyber bullying," but this thread is mostly about single offenses.