To signify a new era .. once and once only .. to please (most of) the people.
Absolutely, it is technically possible. In fact, I have not yet found a warning as mild as the "comment" left for AlphaNumeric. But that is either a power reserved for the Neutron login or one that requires direct machine/database access to do.
QUOTE (rpenner+Feb 16 2009, 12:30 AM)
Absolutely, it is technically possible. In fact, I have not yet found a warning as mild as the "comment" left for AlphaNumeric. But that is either a power reserved for the Neutron login or one that requires direct machine/database access to do.
Are you entertaining the thought of pardons?
Are you entertaining the thought of pardons?
I think management should consider it. But I think a top priority would be to restore the terms of service.
QUOTE (Derek1148+)
Are you entertaining the thought of pardons?
New era - (hopefully) once and once only.
Pardon- singular .. AN ..once and once only.
-C2.
New era - (hopefully) once and once only.
Pardon- singular .. AN ..once and once only.
-C2.
Why would you want to do this? He is one of the most important and influential people here. warnings are needed and if he sees fit to warn someone it must be justified and i don't know about everyone else but I'll take his word for it. please try and behave and learn to take some criticism with a grain of salt OK. thanks for hearing me out.
Ah well
Entertaining the notion of individual pardons is rather absurd, if you ask me. A far more sensible approach, IMHO, would be to have warnings "roll out" of the system after some specified period of time.
Well, that would be a combination of policy and programming.
If it were universally assumed that all warnings to all people should be subject to the same expiration schedule, then obvious a programatic way to do this is preferable.
But if not all warnings should expire, or should expire on the same schedule, more nuanced programming is needed.
And in general, if there were more than one moderator at a time, and such decisions were reviewed, then yet more nuanced programming would be required.
But as a warning is tied to an account name and not a poster on the far side and people react in many different ways to feedback, warning and suspension mechanisms, I am not a priori willing to dictate for all time what policy should be. It is very much a work in progress and if the legislative history of the UK and the US are anything to go by, it should continue to be a work in progress as we walk a tightrope between freedoms and hateful noise.
But that's just my opinion.
If it were universally assumed that all warnings to all people should be subject to the same expiration schedule, then obvious a programatic way to do this is preferable.
But if not all warnings should expire, or should expire on the same schedule, more nuanced programming is needed.
And in general, if there were more than one moderator at a time, and such decisions were reviewed, then yet more nuanced programming would be required.
But as a warning is tied to an account name and not a poster on the far side and people react in many different ways to feedback, warning and suspension mechanisms, I am not a priori willing to dictate for all time what policy should be. It is very much a work in progress and if the legislative history of the UK and the US are anything to go by, it should continue to be a work in progress as we walk a tightrope between freedoms and hateful noise.
But that's just my opinion.
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