Reason & duration should be mentioned in the profile when a member gets banned

I am in the middle of 2 trades & shocked to see both of them are banned now.
Both are having good itrade & good no. of posts. I have done the trade by PM only & don't have their email or IM. Now I am not able to contact them as they have been banned.

I personally think, Moderators should mention the reason & duration for the ban in the member's profile page so that we can have the exact idea about their ban & expected date of their return on DP.

Are you agree with me ?

 

Yeh maybe, maybe not why they were banned, just when they will be back.

 

Yeh, but if a user is banned, why not have like

Banned Until November 4th 2007

or something like that in there profile

 

Here's a suggestion:

What if 500 members paid Shawn $2 each to get the mod installed to make this happen? The mod would cost maybe a $100 and Shawn gets $900 minus PP fees of course. Is it worth that much? More maybe?

Just a thought.

Col

 

I think there is one more reason & it is the most important & fetal for the reputation of any forum & it is FRAUD.!! The member can also be banned permanently when he/she tries to scam someone. I have read few posts where the member was doing good on the forum with currency exchange & when he gets banned due to infraction points people are starting to say that the person is a scammer, don't do any exchange with him or something like that. Now when the person comes back to the forum after his infraction point expires, no one will believe him for a while to start business again with him. That's why I want you to show the reason for his/her ban, so that people can trust him again when he/she returns back to the forum.

I am ready to pay my $2. That's a nice idea.

 

Put me down for the $2.oo as well COL

Great idea man!

 

If donations are required to make this happen, I will donate $50 to this, if Shawn thinks it is worth it.

Shawn, this would make a LOT of members a bit more secure about doing business with other members. I don't know of any other forums doing this. DP would be the first.

Food for thought.

Col

 

Yep, to be fair this shoud be implemented...

 

I will match your $50 as well, Col

This is truly a wonderful idea,

 

You sure about that ?

I think there is such thing as a permanent ban

 

Whilst I wouldn't mind it, people shouldn't be silly enough to get banned. The rules are pretty straight forward.

 

This thread is not about people getting banned for infractions against the rules of DP. This is about doing something to identify people banned for this and people banned for scamming. There's a huge difference.

Col

 

Oh yea , my bad - Thats a good point

 

I can understand the arguments both for and against displaying ban reasons publicly - although in the case of temporary bans, a return date would certainly come in useful and help allay confusion during trades.

Personally i'd like to a difference between how permanent bans and temporary bans are shown on a users profile - whether thats explicitly stating 'Permanent' or 'Temporary' - or simply indicated by an asterix or something of that nature.

I don't think this will actually happen, but it'd be nice nonetheless.

 

or how about some identifying image that indicates a persons level of infractions, a bar that gets longer the more you have thus warning folks of an impending ban action.

 

How is shawn called in DP ? and you forgot to mention a reson of ban which is the scam

 

banned members can still read the threads, if you are in a deal just make a post in the deal thread to them with your contact details.

the reason a person is banned is between DP and that person, it is no-one else's business.

the next thing you'll be asking from DP is to run a credit check on members and post the results of that in our profiles.