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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Rapidly sidestepping some of the things in this thread (don't make me where trousers just to wade through all that mud!!) a few points which occur to me: 1. People seem to hold this not banning thing up as though it were set in stone. Technically it is (its in a glass case on the first floor corridor of the west wing) but if you check the footnotes there are some exceptions. We have banned by name when the name has been deliberately registered to offend (its usually deleted - I can think of one unpleasant example and the Adolf Hitler one was potentially another - esp. if the German text posted was also offensive). We have also banned people by IP - especially in the days of the Tool School when it was necessary to ban a whole school to calm things down. I emailed the Doc about it and he sorted out the actual banning and I have done similar things on a number of occasions (which incidentally is almost the sum of my contact with the Doc other than postings on the board [edit: Which shouldn't imply we ever fell out just that one of my anti-social sctreaks is not making first contact or only doing so if I need something so......]). Usually the ban was only temporary to give us room to sort things out but there were still a couple of people banned when I checked. 2. Some eyebrows have been raised about people other than the Doc being able to ban people but most Mad Scis had that ability it was just not well known (I didn't find out until recently) - the fact that none of them used that ability (or if it was used it was very rare) should say something. The only real change is that now everyone knows about it. So thats it really - essentially nothing has changed except that things are less likely to be done on a need to know basis. Obviously greater transparency can lead to initial worries about potential abuse but hopefully it will ultimately lead to better accountability (there are other features in the New Asylum which will also help increase accountability). What I would suggest is that we have a private mod/admin area where we can discuss such things but in the spirit of greater openness perhaps we can just carry on doing it here (although I suspect we might need such a forum for duller day-to-day decison-making but perhaps not). [edit: Just adding a 'to' to help it make a little more sense. Also has anyone else noticed that clicking the edit button lets you edit the pervious post?] ___________________ Emps [url=http://www.the-emperor.org]The Emperor dot org[/url] \| [url=http://www.justice4pat.com]Justice for Pat Richard[/url] \| FAQs: [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/53/]Emperor[/url] \| [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/40/]Site Reviews[/url] \| [url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/394/]Reception Room[/url] [small](Edited by [internallink=1269]Emperor[/internallink] on 04-15-2004 06:48)[/small] Loading...
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