Waiting period for new posters

@kevin-eleven said
Also: speaking as someone who was falsely identified as a returning banned member (Robbie Carrobie) and mistreated accordingly by my own personal Javert, I request that everyone be careful with their paranoid witch-hunts.

Get a life.

@divegeester said
Get a life.

Quoted for reference.

@kevin-eleven said
Quoted for reference.

Reference to what?

@suzianne said
We plainly have some people coming back almost instantly with a new name. I agree that a waiting period before they can use the forums would be beneficial. And some of those coming back get to come back simply because they pony up the dough. So I'd be against an exemption for paying members. If you're going to have a waiting period for the forums, it should be for ALL ne ...[text shortened]... is actually a returner, because they post right away, talking about other users like they know them.

I look on the help forum.
You get newcomers on there who have queries about the system.
If they're not allowed to ask questions they may just not bother with the site and go somewhere else.
I think most of us can see when someone,with whatever name,is posting for devilment and just ignore the posts.Replying to them is what they want.

@venda said
I look on the help forum.
You get newcomers on there who have queries about the system.
If they're not allowed to ask questions they may just not bother with the site and go somewhere else.
I think most of us can see when someone,with whatever name,is posting for devilment and just ignore the posts.Replying to them is what they want.

Then you can make only the help forum accessible to new posters within the waiting period.

@venda said
I look on the help forum.
You get newcomers on there who have queries about the system.
If they're not allowed to ask questions they may just not bother with the site and go somewhere else.
I think most of us can see when someone,with whatever name,is posting for devilment and just ignore the posts.Replying to them is what they want.

The Help Forum can be an easy exception.

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Wakey Wakey young Liberals!

Time to get up and receive your trophies! 🤗

@ponderable said
So I understand that that order of letters should be banned?

Or "scum" as such, as with the more colloquial term for excrements?

Thanks for the attempted defection.

Do you approve of subscribers calling non subscribers “non sub scum”? Or maybe just those who aren’t in your little club.

@kevin-eleven said
When was the last time he did that?

Why do you need to know that?

@vivify said
Then you can make only the help forum accessible to new posters within the waiting period.

Why are you so concerned about it?

@beowulf said
@vivify

Try buying a membership before you complain.

Get out, Contend. Now.

@vivify said
Banned posters keep returning under new accounts only to continue the same behavior that got them banned.

A waiting period should be implemented like for provisional ratings. A certain number of games must be played before getting a rating; this should be used for new posters to slow down the time before a banned poster returns to the forums.

This would be especiall ...[text shortened]... who get banned multiple times as some of them may get tired of putting in the effort just to troll.

I'm not sure about a waiting period for truly new subscribers, but it would be a positive thing at least if the "moderators" of this site would grow a pair and kick the obvious scum out as soon as it becomes obvious, rather than - as they do now - letting any banned lowlife return and pull the same excrement they did before, under a new name.

@shallow-blue said
I'm not sure about a waiting period for truly new subscribers, but it would be a positive thing at least if the "moderators" of this site would grow a pair and kick the obvious scum out as soon as it becomes obvious, rather than - as they do now - letting any banned lowlife return and pull the same excrement they did before, under a new name.

I’ve seen lots of abusive posters with multiple accounts banned permanently.

Who are you thinking of specifically?

@Shallow-Blue

I've also seen a lot of abusive posters who have never been banned...