I've noticed alot of members getting banned these days. Can we have the reason of user getting banned under his name where it says banned? I feel by doing this alot of members would know why a person is banned and would not try to commit the same mistake as the banned person did.
Impossible because most get banned for raking up several infractions which could be for a variety of reasons. Banned is banned, that's all there is to know.
Agree to the fact that a person can be banned due to alot of infractions and all the reasons cannot be shown. But something like "Banned due to several infractions" would make sense?
Anyone gets banned due to several infractions only i.e. 10 infractions leads to a BAN that's why T0PS said that it makes sense.......
Wont actually help me but would help alot of new members who dont know what actually can get them banned here. For e.g. Someone might not know that creating 2 ids here would ban him or her. Also, someone would want to know why a good poster (according to him) was banned all of a sudden. I feel this would really help DP is reducing the number of banned members. I am not asking for the entire explanation as to why a person was banned but something like "Duplicate Accounts", "Too Many Infractions", "Racist Remarks" etc. under the banned person's id would really help people to know whats not allowed at DP.
Imagine you are a MOD and think about what you don't want other to do, write it down and stick it next to your monitor, you will be ok Actually, most rules of forum are same as rules in the real world Bumping = cutting the line duplicate account = fake id and i believe you don't scam or attack other in the outside world, right? so...how hard is it?
People do not get banned from DP for no reasons. I personally do not think it is necessary to post the name of the person and the reason for the ban everytime a user is banned.
Like I said before I am not expecting a long explanation or a new thread on another person being banned. I thought it would help everyone to know why a person is banned if a reason containing 2-4 words is placed under his/her ID in a post...just next or below to where it says 'banned'.
Yes, you are right...there might be more ways of finding out why a person is banned but a short reason right under his ID would make life easier for alot of people. The reason for suggesting this is not only to know why a person is banned but it will also allow a person to know whats not allowed here by going through various threads. Person 'A'... new to DP forums might think of making a new ID cos he doesnt like the one he has made now. He doesn't know the rules here cos he has not been through them (his mistake obviously)...but he would not commit this mistake if he notices a particular person on a thread banned for the same reason...he would know this only when a short reason is placed under the banned persons ID. Buy creating this thread I am not saying that DP is doing something wrong...as rightly placed under the "Suggestions" topic this is just a suggestion and not a complaint or compulsion.
Anyone else posting links to policies of this forum please read this first. I know we have policies in place...I was suggesting something which I feel would be nice and giving reasons why I feel its nice and why am I expecting this. An addon like what I suggested would make life easier for lot of people here.
It would indeed make life easier for those who are too lazy to look up the rules. It would not make life easier for those mods who have to go through the member's history and summarize manually a reason of their ban, type it in a box and press a submit button to activate it.
Just have a look at this and see if its of any worth. http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35979&page=6
Yes, something like that would be of value to some people. But IMO not enough to go to the extra effort of doing that.