[Can we have a "mod log" or indication when a user is banned?]

15 minutes ago, Fire Emblem Fan said:

Don't quote one sentence and not the rest. Here's some more for you:

Ever been on a site where you've been constantly abused and quite literally told you should have been aborted, and the mods refuse to step in and put a stop to it?

Yeah, almost daily. I don't think I've ever been targeted, though, which this sounds like.

20 minutes ago, Fire Emblem Fan said:

And then you get warned for finally having enough and sticking up for yourself? I have. So, I say again, the whole website being able to see my warnings is a terrible idea. It isn't anyone else's business, especially if there's legit concern about whether or not the person was rightfully warned. Screw that.

Reminds me of public school, actually. In an environment so overwhelmingly hostile that pointing out abuse only further entrenches it, and so all that's left is to fly under the radar, absolutely, I agree that what I've proposed would only make that situation worse. But that's a borderline Kobayashi Maru, and if it described SF, I imagine we'd be having this discussion on FE Universe or reddit.

1 hour ago, Parrhesia said:

We are to an extent bound to the board software itself, we can't create a completely bespoke interface. I'm not going to pretend I know much about the technical side of the forum, though.

I just looked it up. Invision doesn't seem to offer any of these features, nor plan to. RIP. Maybe the real mod log was the friends we made along the way.

[Can we have a "mod log" or indication when a user is banned?]

5 minutes ago, Zapp Branniglenn said:

Hey don't rope me in with these other guys. I offered a better, middle ground idea than public access to a moderator's kill count.

Shoot, fair enough. Drama sucks. But disagree on public administrative records; I know of at least one website where their use never produced any dorky swagger, though the userbase was pretty chill to begin with.

[Can we have a "mod log" or indication when a user is banned?]

Scarlet letters would of course be tacky, but conducting major and maybe even minor moderation more or less openly would be useful 1. to let users know when the discourse has been adjusted (in addition to Anon's practical problems, I find the idea that my conversations are being policed without my awareness kinda distasteful, and certainly more distasteful than the possibility of others finding out what my dumb ass already earned), and 2. to provide a concrete record of what gets the stick, which in the long run makes the guidelines easier to follow and hopefully reduces the incidence of the whole awful process. Accountability is also nice, though SF isn't hurting for it.

21 hours ago, Zapp Branniglenn said:

My suspensions are nobody else's gosh darned business. 

19 hours ago, Fire Emblem Fan said:

My warnings are also nobody else's business

5 hours ago, Sunwoo said:

invasion of privacy

So, this being a public forum, I post (out loud, for everyone to see) something that's goofy enough to blow past courtesy and warrant a disciplinary response, and the response is the dirty part? What do I get from hiding the punishment if the cringe is already plain?

5 hours ago, Sunwoo said:

What I'm getting out of this is that you want this for YOUR convenience without considering the feelings of others, because it inconvenienced you specifically. I have literally never heard of anyone else complain about this before.

Pretty much. Others' convenience is easily worth the indignity(?) inflicted on the guy who has by definition exhausted grace. So that's Anon, Florete, and I complaining about it right now, so n=3, and most forums I visit (automotive) mark banned users as such right over their avatars, so if that counts I guess like n>>100,000.

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