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GG.NoRe
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)1051 Posts
April 30 2011 14:05 GMT
#1
Im sorry to ask this, maybe the answer is more obvious than I thought.
English is not my first language anyway, so maybe it work in something that I dont know yet.

But Id like to ask about PBU. Technically, should it not be CBU for "Currently Banned User". PBU is mean to all users banned before, but if I understand correctly, this is not what the ban is about. PBU bans are users attampting to dodge current ban terms, Is this right? So PBU seems inaccurate.
DONGJWA!
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24803 Posts
April 30 2011 14:32 GMT
#2
PBU isn't necessarily someone dodging a current temp ban. It is someone who was fully banned and then made a new account.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
GG.NoRe
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)1051 Posts
April 30 2011 14:46 GMT
#3
On April 30 2011 23:32 micronesia wrote:
PBU isn't necessarily someone dodging a current temp ban. It is someone who was fully banned and then made a new account.


I see. Makes sense now. Thanks micro
DONGJWA!
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
April 30 2011 17:19 GMT
#4
previously engaged neo-instigative specimen
Varpulis
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States2517 Posts
May 01 2011 03:31 GMT
#5
What micronesia said. From what I gather, PBU's are kept on a very tight leash, and banned again quickly if they revert to their previous behavior.

It's a good system, imo.
For he is the Oystermeister, lord of all the oysters.
Gummy
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2180 Posts
May 02 2011 02:23 GMT
#6
Absolutely. And yet even the hardest previously engaged neo-instigative specimens are treated by mods with a measured combination of roughness and affection. The fact that these users are not immediately cast/relagated to Disneyland reveals the staff's belief that the individual in question is not beyond rehabilitation. Banlings, mods, admins, etc... are really softies at heart!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7032 Posts
May 02 2011 16:10 GMT
#7
On April 30 2011 23:32 micronesia wrote:
PBU isn't necessarily someone dodging a current temp ban. It is someone who was fully banned and then made a new account.

But very often in the automated ban list thread I see people banned and then it says "try again in a few months", or "good luck on your next account", aren't those PBU then?
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
Gummy
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2180 Posts
May 02 2011 22:44 GMT
#8
PBU = previously banned user. Not permanently banned user. But those people usually end up becoming PBUs when they come back. And they always come back.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.
elmizzt
Profile Joined February 2010
United States3309 Posts
May 02 2011 23:12 GMT
#9
On May 03 2011 01:10 Grumbels wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 30 2011 23:32 micronesia wrote:
PBU isn't necessarily someone dodging a current temp ban. It is someone who was fully banned and then made a new account.

But very often in the automated ban list thread I see people banned and then it says "try again in a few months", or "good luck on your next account", aren't those PBU then?

Yes. If they come back, and don't post like shit, then moderation was successful. If they come back and are still terrible, PBU is an easy reason to drop the hammer.
d=(^_^)z
Kinetik_Inferno
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1431 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-05 23:30:48
May 05 2011 23:30 GMT
#10
So if I get permed once (for a borderline reason, not something horrible) I can come back after a few months of cooling off, and immediately send a PM to a moderator asking (Politely) for a second chance? Awesome, I don't think I could ever stand being IPBanned from TL (And I'll try not to anyway )
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
May 07 2011 12:56 GMT
#11
On May 06 2011 08:30 Kinetik_Inferno wrote:
So if I get permed once (for a borderline reason, not something horrible) I can come back after a few months of cooling off, and immediately send a PM to a moderator asking (Politely) for a second chance? Awesome, I don't think I could ever stand being IPBanned from TL (And I'll try not to anyway )


You sound like me at 600 posts, man.

Actually fuck that you sound like me now. -__- You seem like you'll turn out okay.
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