On April 19 2011 18:53 Wolf wrote: Wow, we've reached 666 pages of banned users. Of course there are more bans, but 666 pages of listed bans.
20 bans per page. So..
Since TL started recording them, there have been 13,320 bans. Wowsers.
9,200+ of them in 2010 and 2011.
3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
This many bans? Doesn't this take away a lot of numbers from teamliquid's viewers? Not to critique because I love the community and teamliquid is basically the best website I've ever been on <3, but it seems to me like it would be more advantageous to simply permanently ban members from posting on the teamliquid forums, rather than to permanently ban them from viewing them. You get rid of the bad manner but keep the members.
Edit: just curious, is there any reason why you guys haven't ever done this?
On April 19 2011 18:53 Wolf wrote: Wow, we've reached 666 pages of banned users. Of course there are more bans, but 666 pages of listed bans.
20 bans per page. So..
Since TL started recording them, there have been 13,320 bans. Wowsers.
9,200+ of them in 2010 and 2011.
3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
This many bans? Doesn't this take away a lot of numbers from teamliquid's viewers? Not to critique because I love the community and teamliquid is basically the best website I've ever been on <3, but it seems to me like it would be more advantageous to simply permanently ban members from posting on the teamliquid forums, rather than to permanently ban them from viewing them. You get rid of the bad manner but keep the members.
Edit: just curious, is there any reason why you guys haven't ever done this?
They normally only ban the account. That person can still view TL.net, but not login. They can even try to re-register under a different account and try to avoid moderator detection(they usually fail right away, tho some have made a decent number of posts before being found out). But I'm also pretty sure that they've IP banned some people who just wouldn't get the message.
On April 19 2011 18:53 Wolf wrote: Wow, we've reached 666 pages of banned users. Of course there are more bans, but 666 pages of listed bans.
20 bans per page. So..
Since TL started recording them, there have been 13,320 bans. Wowsers.
9,200+ of them in 2010 and 2011.
3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
This many bans? Doesn't this take away a lot of numbers from teamliquid's viewers? Not to critique because I love the community and teamliquid is basically the best website I've ever been on <3, but it seems to me like it would be more advantageous to simply permanently ban members from posting on the teamliquid forums, rather than to permanently ban them from viewing them. You get rid of the bad manner but keep the members.
Edit: just curious, is there any reason why you guys haven't ever done this?
You can still read TL if you're banned, you just can't log in. Looking at the top left, you can see only 25% of TL logs in.
On April 20 2011 06:16 p4NDemik wrote: 3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
The mods have been doing some really good work recently.
True, but at this point it's kind of like shooting fish in a barrel. When someone posts "ZOMG PvZ so Imba, FUUU!!!" in an LR thread, it's like getting points for a suicide. Must certainly take some of the pleasure and satisfaction from the work.
I think mods need to do what they are doing in the strategy forum currently (purge), but for every forum on TL. Yes, SC2 strat tends to have more crap post than all the other sections (SC2 tourneys excepted), but I feel if they expanded it everywhere, not only would posting clean up, but there will be plenty more "entertaining" bans to look for.
I am probably going to get banned for this by some dumb mod but I just can't stand the imbalance that the protoss mods have with their forcefields and the ability to 1a2a3a into every thread and unjustly assert their authority over the peaceful forum members like me. No replay posted because everyone knows tvz is all about marine splitting and only noobs can't do that. Nasl is soo bad idra deserves to win every game god I hate these fucking dumb casters i should just go beat up a homeless person to vent my rage. At this point I would start mangling grammar to the best of my ability but unfortunately I cannot let myself sink that low. SC2 sucks BW is the best and everyone else in this thread is an idiot noob who can't play cuz im 5434 supergrandmaster league and I haven't even read their posts, i'm just assuming that, and same with the op. btw im tdot, and batman is gay
(insert 4chan meme)
User was temp banned for this post.
OMG this is epic. Did he miss even one single ban-able cliche in that post? I think he covered all the bases. Still laughing about + Show Spoiler +
btw im tdot, and batman is gay
I can't remember exactly what I wrote, but I think I reported: Martyring. Meme. Imbalance whine. Insulting Batman. Tdot.
He missed a good opportunity to misuse the terms "bonjwa" "troll" "metagame" and "timing attack". Also could've made a sexist remark. But otherwise, pretty good.
Eh no one ever gets banned because of these anymore sadly. I've seen ret get called a troll for building drones, MVP called a bonjwa after winning GSL, and if they were banning for misuse of the term "timing attack" gretorp would have been ip banned after one day of NASL.
I don't think even chill gets mad at people (publicly) for misusing Starcraft terms anymore. Every other post in the strategy forum uses "metagame" for something it doesn't mean, and "push" is basically synonymous with attack now. I gave up caring about it too much when I saw Liquipedia 2 refer to the initial attack with the zerglings from a 6-pool as a "push." On the other hand the community has warped "cheese" into a hyper-specific definition unique to the given situation.
On April 19 2011 18:53 Wolf wrote: Wow, we've reached 666 pages of banned users. Of course there are more bans, but 666 pages of listed bans.
20 bans per page. So..
Since TL started recording them, there have been 13,320 bans. Wowsers.
9,200+ of them in 2010 and 2011.
3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
This many bans? Doesn't this take away a lot of numbers from teamliquid's viewers? Not to critique because I love the community and teamliquid is basically the best website I've ever been on <3, but it seems to me like it would be more advantageous to simply permanently ban members from posting on the teamliquid forums, rather than to permanently ban them from viewing them. You get rid of the bad manner but keep the members.
Edit: just curious, is there any reason why you guys haven't ever done this?
You can still read TL if you're banned, you just can't log in. Looking at the top left, you can see only 25% of TL logs in.
That always puzzled me. I don't understand how so many people would be viewing teamliquid without an account logged in. Do you have statistics on how many of the current viewers are banned currently?
On April 19 2011 18:53 Wolf wrote: Wow, we've reached 666 pages of banned users. Of course there are more bans, but 666 pages of listed bans.
20 bans per page. So..
Since TL started recording them, there have been 13,320 bans. Wowsers.
9,200+ of them in 2010 and 2011.
3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
This many bans? Doesn't this take away a lot of numbers from teamliquid's viewers? Not to critique because I love the community and teamliquid is basically the best website I've ever been on <3, but it seems to me like it would be more advantageous to simply permanently ban members from posting on the teamliquid forums, rather than to permanently ban them from viewing them. You get rid of the bad manner but keep the members.
Edit: just curious, is there any reason why you guys haven't ever done this?
You can still read TL if you're banned, you just can't log in. Looking at the top left, you can see only 25% of TL logs in.
That always puzzled me. I don't understand how so many people would be viewing teamliquid without an account logged in. Do you have statistics on how many of the current viewers are banned currently?
It took me a couple months to have a strong enough urge to post that I made an account. As you can read all the threads with a normal account as when you are not logged in, then the only reason to get one is to post on it (as opposed to visiting the site solely to read news).
On April 19 2011 18:53 Wolf wrote: Wow, we've reached 666 pages of banned users. Of course there are more bans, but 666 pages of listed bans.
20 bans per page. So..
Since TL started recording them, there have been 13,320 bans. Wowsers.
9,200+ of them in 2010 and 2011.
3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
This many bans? Doesn't this take away a lot of numbers from teamliquid's viewers? Not to critique because I love the community and teamliquid is basically the best website I've ever been on <3, but it seems to me like it would be more advantageous to simply permanently ban members from posting on the teamliquid forums, rather than to permanently ban them from viewing them. You get rid of the bad manner but keep the members.
Edit: just curious, is there any reason why you guys haven't ever done this?
And a lot of those bans are temp bans. Quite a few people have multiple bans in that span, so probably not >3000 unique bans.
Who is this tdot you speak of? Most of these have been pretty hilarious, but I don't get why people are still allowed to get away with what they do sometimes, especially whining in the wrong threads? I would second the TL.net temp purge, though I may end up getting caught in that o.O
I was wondering what the lockdown and nuke icons are for, if someone could tell me?
On April 20 2011 12:19 moltenlead wrote: Who is this tdot you speak of? Most of these have been pretty hilarious, but I don't get why people are still allowed to get away with what they do sometimes, especially whining in the wrong threads? I would second the TL.net temp purge, though I may end up getting caught in that o.O
I was wondering what the lockdown and nuke icons are for, if someone could tell me?
Tdot is no one special. He's just a bad poster famous for his inhuman persistence, registering dozens of new accounts at a time to harass TL. He didn't do a good job.
The nuke icon indicates that the user is permanently banned, while the Lockdown icon indicates a temporary ban.
On April 19 2011 18:53 Wolf wrote: Wow, we've reached 666 pages of banned users. Of course there are more bans, but 666 pages of listed bans.
20 bans per page. So..
Since TL started recording them, there have been 13,320 bans. Wowsers.
9,200+ of them in 2010 and 2011.
3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
This many bans? Doesn't this take away a lot of numbers from teamliquid's viewers? Not to critique because I love the community and teamliquid is basically the best website I've ever been on <3, but it seems to me like it would be more advantageous to simply permanently ban members from posting on the teamliquid forums, rather than to permanently ban them from viewing them. You get rid of the bad manner but keep the members.
Edit: just curious, is there any reason why you guys haven't ever done this?
You can still read TL if you're banned, you just can't log in. Looking at the top left, you can see only 25% of TL logs in.
That always puzzled me. I don't understand how so many people would be viewing teamliquid without an account logged in. Do you have statistics on how many of the current viewers are banned currently?
It took me a couple months to have a strong enough urge to post that I made an account. As you can read all the threads with a normal account as when you are not logged in, then the only reason to get one is to post on it (as opposed to visiting the site solely to read news).
Months? It took me jears to register an accaunt and then some to actually start posting. I wish i'd done that before
On April 19 2011 18:53 Wolf wrote: Wow, we've reached 666 pages of banned users. Of course there are more bans, but 666 pages of listed bans.
20 bans per page. So..
Since TL started recording them, there have been 13,320 bans. Wowsers.
9,200+ of them in 2010 and 2011.
3,500+ just in the first 3 and a half months of this year.
This many bans? Doesn't this take away a lot of numbers from teamliquid's viewers? Not to critique because I love the community and teamliquid is basically the best website I've ever been on <3, but it seems to me like it would be more advantageous to simply permanently ban members from posting on the teamliquid forums, rather than to permanently ban them from viewing them. You get rid of the bad manner but keep the members.
Edit: just curious, is there any reason why you guys haven't ever done this?
You can still read TL if you're banned, you just can't log in. Looking at the top left, you can see only 25% of TL logs in.
That always puzzled me. I don't understand how so many people would be viewing teamliquid without an account logged in. Do you have statistics on how many of the current viewers are banned currently?
It took me a couple months to have a strong enough urge to post that I made an account. As you can read all the threads with a normal account as when you are not logged in, then the only reason to get one is to post on it (as opposed to visiting the site solely to read news).
On a lot of forums the incentive to register, even if not intending to post, is that it tracks your unread posts and you can click a button to go right to the first unread post in a given thread. TL doesn't do that yet (annoyingly) so the impetus for someone with no interest in posting to register is lower.
It would be interesting to see how the ratio of bans/members, and bans/post has changed over the last couple of years. You would suspect that with the massive influx of new guys the overall number of bans to active member has increased significantly. But then you probably also have a much larger percentage of lurkers, so who knows. Data available somewhere?
Edit: Nice reasoning here Jibba.
imbs was just banned by Jibba.
That account was created on 2010-09-29 19:16:59 and had 320 posts.
Reason: You were a much better member before you started posting. You've been warned about being a shit poster so many times in various SC2 subforums, and then you do it in the Strategy section. That's a nono.