Upgrade to Forum Suggestion - Banning in Specific Forums
 

Would it be possible to add a feature to allow moderators to ban people from their specific forums? (Well I know it is possible, so could you?)

Seeing certain posters (Andrew Karpinski comes to mind) getting banned from all forums instead of just the offending forum really doesn't seem to be productive. It really seems like there should be a way to separate people who have really violated the 2+2 terms and conditions from those who have gotten on the bad side of one mod.

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Re: Upgrade to Forum Suggestion - Banning in Specific Forums
 

Andrew Karpinski was banned from the offending forum (OOT), and he was told that if he posted in that offending forum again he would be banned from all of 2p2.

He felt it was necessary to make a post in some stupid thread about a pirate ambush or something, so he was banned. It's simple.

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Andrew Karpinski was banned from the offending forum (OOT), and he was told that if he posted in that offending forum again he would be banned from all of 2p2.

He felt it was necessary to make a post in some stupid thread about a pirate ambush or something, so he was banned. It's simple.

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Fair enough, but mine was a general request for this feature, not a request to save Andrew (don't know him, just remembered that he was banned in BBV for no apparent reason).

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He wasn't necessarily banned from BBV (as far as I know), he was "exiled" from OOT and then banned from 2p2 for breaking the exile.

A feature such as this would be nice, but I don't believe it is necessary because the only forum that would really use it is OOT, and [censored] already has a nice little system worked out.

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Yes but I think hes back as Jackie Onasses so does it really matter?

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You thought karpinski was jacki o?

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Am I wrong?

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Yes.

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He'll probably be back though either way

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Am I wrong?

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J.O. sucks way more than Karpinski did.

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J.O. sucks way more than Karpinski did.

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Wow, this is wrong.

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J.O. sucks way more than Karpinski did.

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Wow, this is wrong.

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I agree. They both post(ed) in every thread under the sun, yet JO and his aliases are more consistently funny than Karpinski. Not to mention way less annoying.

CheckRaise, you may be a BBV poster, where they adopted AK like a handicapped pet for whatever reason.

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CheckRaise, you may be a BBV poster, where they adopted AK like a handicapped pet for whatever reason.

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ahahaha

To be fair, JO/Buffalo is like OOT's evil, racist, hate-filled pokemon that is unleashed when someone starts a retarded thread.

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Yes but I think hes back as Jackie Onasses so does it really matter?

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[censored] banned JO a few days ago.

rj

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Yes but I think hes back as Jackie Onasses so does it really matter?

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[censored] banned JO a few days ago.

rj

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Isn't he back as Buffalo Man or something like that?

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Yes but I think hes back as Jackie Onasses so does it really matter?

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[censored] banned JO a few days ago.

rj

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Isn't he back as Buffalo Man or something like that?

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That was until yesterday. Now he is someone else. I'll let you try and find him...it certainly won't be the most difficult task you face today. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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That was until yesterday. Now he is someone else. I'll let you try and find him...it certainly won't be the most difficult task you face today. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Jesus, how [censored] boring must your life be to continually act in a manner you know will get you banned from the forum then register a new name to do it all over again?
It's like the 5-year-old in pre-school who bites all the girls for attention. Leave the house already.

Power Posting
 

Here is the recipe posted by the webmaster of what was/is arguably the most popular Blackjack website extant. It would be profitable IMHO for other webmasters also to adopt some or all of these recommendations.

<font color="blue"> Power Posting </font>

1. Choose your subject heading carefully. Ten times as many people will read your subject line as will read your message.

2. Think the message through carefully before you post it. Having just one message in a given thread reflects much better on you than if you need multiple posts to explain one idea.

3. Accept that no matter what you say, someone can find a way to turn your own words against you. When that happens, do not counterattack.

4. Accept that other people have the right of free speech. Do not argue when someone simply disagrees with you. As long as your original post still exists, anyone can read it and accept it as if it were a response to your critic.

5. Do not post the same message multiple times, either on the same message board or on different boards.

6. Do not feel obligated to respond to any post. Of course, when someone asks if you meant "Howard Schwartz" when you said "Howard Grossman" and the answer is affirmative, a response is appropriate.

7. Let the other person have the last word in a disagreement. Making the final post in an argumentative thread is perceived as weakness, not strength.

8. Assume that any comment overly critical of you will not be believed, and will soon be offset by a response from someone else, who thinks you are being treated unfairly.

9. People judge you by your own posts. If visitors to [the website] think you have a particular attribute, it is because your own posts have demonstrated that attribute and not because somebody else has posted accusing you of having that attribute.

10. Use humor, but use it sparingly. A little humor sharpens an argument, but too much humor comes across as meanness.

11. A truth about posts: Meanness is magnified. Posts with a little bit of meanness will be read as having a lot of meanness. So before you post, edit the meanness out of your message. And when you read a message that you interpret as mean, discount the meanness.

12. It is easy for one person to post multiple messages, attaching a different name to each. Therefore, multiple anonymous attacks might all be posted by just one person. The more outrageous the attacks, the more likely that they were all posted by one person.

13. If you are asking a question or requesting information, use a question mark in the subject line.

14. Do not post in all capital letters. This goes for the subject heading as well. Posting in all caps is considered shouting and rude. Posting a subject heading in all caps infers that you think that your post is more important than anyone else's. There are only rare situations when shouting is appropriate. Of course, posting an acronym like ROTFL is done in all caps.

15. Unless you want to publicly disclose personal information about yourself, do not post an email address which may indicate your real name or other personal information.

Re: Power Posting
 

Quoted from Cyrus:

Here is the recipe posted by the webmaster of what was/is arguably the most popular Blackjack website extant. It would be profitable IMHO for other webmasters also to adopt some or all of these recommendations.

Power Posting

1. Choose your subject heading carefully. Ten times as many people will read your subject line as will read your message.

2. Think the message through carefully before you post it. Having just one message in a given thread reflects much better on you than if you need multiple posts to explain one idea.

3. Accept that no matter what you say, someone can find a way to turn your own words against you. When that happens, do not counterattack.

4 Do not argue because someone simply disagrees with you. As long as your original post still exists, anyone can read it and accept it as if it were a response to your critic.

5. Do not post the same message multiple times, either on the same message board or on different boards.

6. Do not feel obligated to respond to any post. Of course, when someone asks if you meant "Howard Schwartz" when you said "Howard Grossman" and the answer is affirmative, a response is appropriate.

7. Let the other person have the last word in a disagreement. Making the final post in an argumentative thread is perceived as weakness, not strength.

8. Assume that any comment overly critical of you will not be believed, and will soon be offset by a response from someone else, who thinks you are being treated unfairly.

9. People judge you by your own posts. If visitors to [the website] think you have a particular attribute, it is because your own posts have demonstrated that attribute and not because somebody else has posted accusing you of having that attribute.


11. A truth about posts: Meanness is magnified. Posts with a little bit of meanness will be read as having a lot of meanness. So before you post, edit the meanness out of your message. And when you read a message that you interpret as mean, discount the meanness.

12. It is easy for one person to post multiple messages, attaching a different name to each. Therefore, multiple anonymous attacks might all be posted by just one person. The more outrageous the attacks, the more likely that they were all posted by one person.

13. If you are asking a question or requesting information, use a question mark in the subject line.

14. Do not post in all capital letters. This goes for the subject heading as well. Posting in all caps is considered shouting and rude. Posting a subject heading in all caps infers that you think that your post is more important than anyone else's. There are only rare situations when shouting is appropriate. Of course, posting an acronym like ROTFL is done in all caps.

15. Unless you want to publicly disclose personal information about yourself, do not post an email address which may indicate your real name or other personal information.

I removed # 10 and edited #4. This is my personal view (the edits), not any sort of official guide. However, if people support it, we can put it up officially.

I'm not sure where we should put a list like this. The homepage, perhaps and/or a link on the side menu?

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I removed # 10 and edited #4.

[/ QUOTE ] I can live with your changes [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] but the original text was a sort of admonition, giving not just guidance but a little justification behind it.

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4. Accept that other people have the right of free speech. Do not argue when someone simply disagrees with you. As long as your original post still exists, anyone can read it and accept it as if it were a response to your critic.

10. Use humor, but use it sparingly. A little humor sharpens an argument, but too much humor comes across as meanness.

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I'm not sure where we should put a list like this. The homepage, perhaps and/or a link on the side menu.

[/ QUOTE ]The whole welcome page is currently something of a mess, IMHO. Perhaps when you re-arrange the home screen, you will find the appropriate place. Usually, a website's link to recommendations &amp; rules about posting should be placed discreetly somewhere where they can be easily seen and clicked on.

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This is more like it.......Let's keep this going.

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