Suspended for Otter Nonsense

[SturmChurro]

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When I was a moderator on that large fan site a few years ago, we would issue an official thread warning with something along the lines of, "remain on topic", "further action may be taken". Depending on severity. we would issue official warnings to users, that actually would be a mark on their account, but were just a warning so not an actual strike against that specific user's account. These warnings would include why they are receiving this warning. Users had an actual appeal process similar to a tribunal. I think I said this before yesterday. This was a fan site, with volunteers. I think the lack of warnings for even minor "violations" you get bans that, as users have said, can lead to your account being terminated is really too much.

I don't think it would be feasible, considering the amount of posts get deleted on a daily basis, for them to issue a reason, not to mention the thread would probably be littered with these. However, I do agree with official warnings, and actual interaction is what is sorely needed. Even a moderator just stepping in and saying "stay on topic" would be enough to keep the discussion in line, in my opinion. The fact that there is no interaction, and even when you get banned there is still no interaction, even in the "appeal" process there is no interaction. All that is said is this has been "reviewed as correct" or something along those lines.

Another thing we used to do was edit out portions of a users post with a small thing like, again, "stay on topic", "refrain from personal attacks", but if the bulk of the content was on topic, and added to the discussion we would leave it. If any portion of a user's post on this forum is deemed "delete worthy" even if the bulk of said post is on-topic and adds to the discussion, I think it gets entirely deleted.