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View submission: Improved ban evasion detection and mitigation
One thought I had was giving an ability for mods to be able to select "Permanently ban this person" or "We will welcome this person back later".
I don't understand. We already have this. If I don't want a person back, I perma-ban them. If I'm willing to welcome them back later, I temp-ban them.
Comment by f1uk3r at 29/05/2020 at 10:28 UTC
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So taking example of r/nba. We don't like to give temp bans because users, in general, wait for their ban time to expire and keep on doing the same thing they got banned for. So we "perma" ban them first and have a chat about which rule they broke and tell them not to break them in future. We also increase ban time according to the number of time they were previously banned. In reality very few of our bans are permanent.
The problem is users flip out when they read "permanently banned" when we never meant that ban to be permanent. Even through we have made it clear in the ban message that ban doesn't need to be permanent, users don't read that.
Comment by ManicGypsy at 29/05/2020 at 21:30 UTC
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While this is mostly true, there have been a few people who I've permabanned and they have apologized and agreed to follow the rules, and I have unbanned them and it's been fine. But maybe that's because gaming subs are a bit different?